LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
SLAVERY IN AMERICA COTTON SLAVE TRADE AND THE SOUTHERN RESPONSE
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to make money
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to receive passage to the New World
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to gain political power
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to honor Native American traditions
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Detailed explanation-1: -Some people indentured themselves in order to gain passage to America or to escape debt and poverty. Others, including convicts, were sold into indenture upon arrival. Indentures are a type of contract that was torn in two, so each party could have a portion.
Detailed explanation-2: -Indentured servants first arrived in America in the decade following the settlement of Jamestown by the Virginia Company in 1607. The idea of indentured servitude was born of a need for cheap labor. The earliest settlers soon realized that they had lots of land to care for, but no one to care for it.
Detailed explanation-3: -Indentured servitude is a form of labor where an individual is under contract to work without a salary to repay an indenture or loan within a certain timeframe. Indentured servitude was popular in the United States in the 1600s as many European immigrants worked in exchange for the price of passage to America.
Detailed explanation-4: -In the 17th century, most indentured servants were of English origin and migrated to the Chesapeake and West Indies. Of the 120, 000 emigrants to the Chesapeake during this era, roughly 90, 000 arrived as bound laborers.
Detailed explanation-5: -Indentured, or bonded, servants were an important source of labor in seventeenth-and eighteenth-century America. The term generally refers to immigrants who, in return for passage from Europe to America, had bound themselves to work in America for a number of years, after which time they would become completely free.