USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Indentured servants were men and women who signed a contract (also known as an indenture or a covenant) by which they agreed to work for a certain number of years in exchange for transportation to Virginia and, once they arrived, food, clothing, and shelter.

Detailed explanation-3: -Three different types of indentured servant agreements existed in the 18th century: free-willers, King’s passengers, and redemptioners.

Detailed explanation-4: -Many white immigrants arrived in colonial America as indentured servants, usually as young men and women from Britain or Germany, under the age of 21.

Detailed explanation-5: -Many historians describe indentured servant John Punch as the first documented slave (or slave for life) in America, as punishment for escaping his captors in 1640.