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 not paid wages but they were generally housed, clothed, and fed. The rights to the individual’s labor could be bought and sold, but the servants themselves were not considered property and were free upon the end of their indenture (usually a period of five to seven years).

Detailed explanation-3: -The servant would be supplied room and board while working in the master’s fields. Upon completion of the contract, the servant would receive “freedom dues, ” a pre-arranged termination bonus. This might include land, money, a gun, clothes or food.

Detailed explanation-4: -European immigrants (primarily indentured servants) tended to concentrate in the Chesapeake and Middle Colonies, where servants could expect to find the greatest opportunities to enter agriculture once they had completed their term of service.