I think it is former description of an aprentaship for a craftsman. A young person would agree to work for an employer for a period of time, in the 1800-1930 for prehaps a 7 year term, to enable them to learn the required skills to be classed as a craftsman. The period of indenture 7 years or more at a low or no income, in return for this training.
English colonists adopted slavery in order to meet the labor demands of their profitable industries, such as tobacco and sugar plantations. They saw enslaved Africans as a cheap and abundant source of labor that would help them maximize profits in their colonies. Additionally, they used racist ideologies to justify the enslavement of Africans and perpetuate the system.
Some synonyms for indentured servants include apprentices, bondmen, and bonded laborers.
Indentured servants.
They used indentured servants.
Indentured servants receive FREEDOM
Improvements in conditions in Europe brought about a decrease in people attempting to leave the continent as indentured servants, and with the rise of the African slave trade, the need for indentured white servants that the colonists had to pay and eventually release decreased dramatically.
Improvements in conditions in Europe brought about a decrease in people attempting to leave the continent as indentured servants, and with the rise of the African slave trade, the need for indentured white servants that the colonists had to pay and eventually release decreased dramatically.
New England had indentured servants
declining death rates made slaves more profitable than indentured servants
Improvements in conditions in Europe brought about a decrease in people attempting to leave the continent as indentured servants, and with the rise of the African slave trade, the need for indentured white servants that the colonists had to pay and eventually release decreased dramatically.
by boats, white people on boats.
Indentured servants were free white people who were working off Passage to the new world. Slave were people who were owned by another person and were considered property and not human.