Did Plantation workers include indentured servants and slaves?

They didn’t have indentured servants. Only slaves were used.

Indentured servants and slaves were used.

The answers below are wrong. Indentured servants were not outlawed. In fact, today there are people who come as indentured servants. The main problem with the process is that many people didn't finish their 7 year contract and would fade into the population. Slaves on the other hand were easy to find since all slaves were African American and they couldn't disappear into the population. The first slave arrived in 1619 and as the southern… Read More

Indentured servants

When the colonies required indentured servants or slaves it was to do the work. The first slave arrived in Jamestown in 1609 and after tobacco got a start in the colony workers were needed. Indentured servants didn't work out as well, so more slaves were brought in than indentured servants.

Indentured servants.

Slaves and indentured servants allowed Southern plantation and farm owners to maximize the profits from sale of their crops by eliminating the need to pay wages to their workers. Indentured servants were much more popular in the North, however, as many of them were poor, skilled whites who emigrated from Europe and agreed to enter a limited servitude in order to pay off the cost of their crossing. Southerners were disinclined to take this option… Read More

They were factory workers who got very little pay. about $0.25 a day.

They were indentured servants.

If you are asking about indentured servants it was a 7 year contract.

The settlers of the colonies used the indentured servant concept to bring workers to the colonies.

indentured servants

The plantation hierarchy changed drastically during the war. Plantations were usually family run enterprises and many fathers, sons, brothers and uncles were now enlisted to fight for the confederacy. In addition, non family workers like overseers and indentured servants also became involved in the war. The biggest change, however, was the changing roles of the slaves. Many ran away to fight for the Union and their freedom.

Blacks were used as slaves for plantation workers, or sometimes they would work inside the plantation owner's house to do chores with the servants.

There were not enough indentured servants to meet the high demand for workers.

Those people were called indentured servants.

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At the start of the war: * plantation workers * house servants

indentured servants

slaves (and free workers called indentured servants) worked on plantations, large farms on which crops are grown

Could not own land

could not own land.

free laborers were most likely artisans,as well as trappers,millers and so on.

I'm not so positive that I'm right, but this is what i have Because they had indentured servants which meant that they volunteered to work without pay in exchange for transportation to America. Well, once their indentured servants left they needed help so they enslaved Africans to their job for them. Hope this helps

They needed workers and indentured servants didn’t work out. Anyone who was African was a slave so it was very easy to know where they were.

They helped crops- crops that were always needed Indentured servants made up the majority of workers. Indentured servants are servants who work for somebody for a number of years, if the person they work for pays for their journey from Europe to the colony. Trade was also important. One major product was wheat. slaves and women also ran stores and farms to help the colony. Hope you love me )(

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European governments and proprietors of colonies brought indentured servants from Europe. They also brought captives from African and kept them in slavery.

The first Africans brought to America for the purpose of labor were done so through indentured servitude. Because many indentured servants left once their time was served, colonists found that they lost many skilled workers. Because of this, slavery was adopted instead as a means of retaining laborers

It was legalized for African workers, originally indentured servants, in 1640. In 1705 the definition of who could become a slave were broadened by the state of Virginia legalizing the slavery of any non-Christian foreigner.

Plantation owners did not use white servants and only had African American slaves. Native Americans were not used because they would simply leave. If an African American was found off the plantation without a pass he was taken into custody and all people who were black were slaves so they stood out in the population. It was easy to tell who was or was not a slave.

Indentured servants were poor people from England (sometimes prisoners) whose trip to the colonies was payed for by someone wealthier than them. In return, they had to work for that person for a number of years without pay. Slaves (usually African or of African descent) in the American Colonies, were people who had been taken by slave ship and sold in the Americas. They work their whole lives without pay, and their "owners" can do… Read More

Groups that were sent to colonies against their will to provide free labor included All of these. A convicted criminals B poor people C young boys D young maidens E indentured servants F skilled workers G slaves

As settlers in the Chesapeake area focused on cash crops, the need for workers grew. After Bacon's Rebellion, many decided Indentured Servants could prove dangerous and focused more on African slaves. Unlike indentured servants, African slaves were slaves for life. Chesapeake planters moved further towards securing dominion over the slaves with the introduction of slave codes.

By force. Some were indentured servants, some poor who were brought in to work, some were enslaved to pay off other debts, etc. Any more specifics you have on this will help a better answer.

On both tea and indigo plantations, workers were paid low wages, exploited and were forced to live under squalid conditions. There were no housing facilities or medical care on the plantations. The only difference between the two workers was is that tea plantation workers were under a planter contract, that allowed a relationship similar to indentured servitude to exist.

Hawaiian plantations were in operation beginning in the 1800s, and some continued through the mid-1900s; the main product was sugarcane, but there were also pineapple plantations. The plantation owners wanted to be in total control of the production, as their goal was to make bigger profits. These owners were few in number (five powerful families dominated the sugarcane plantations), but they were very influential in Hawaii's politics and were able to negotiate favorable arrangements that… Read More

the life of the workers in coffee or tea plantation are different from workers in indigo plantations because

In those days farming was labor intensive and many workers were needed. Workers are also needed to clear land of brush, build houses and roads and manufacture essentials. The indentures were a way that a poor person could have his passage paid to American and get a new start .

They needed workers. The first slave arrived in 1619. Indentured servants didn’t work out very well because they often disappeared among the colonists, but an African American in the colonies stood out. All African Americans were slaves, so they could be stopped and questioned if they were off of the plantation. The plantations were huge acres of land so many people were needed. By 1860 there were 6 million slaves in the south in slavery.

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One reason southerners started using slaves(1660)is because indentured servants were leaving plantations to start families and whatnot. Another reason is that planters were not successful when they tried to enslave the Native Americans.

The need for workers is the reason for slavery. At first the colonies used indentured servants, but many when they got to the colonies faded into the population after a period of time. Slaves couldn't do this since they were African American and anyone who was a slave.

The life of workers are different in tea or coffee and indigo plantation in India because in indigo plantation the workers works like a servant but in tea or coffee plantation the workers had no force to work. thank you and have a nice day.

Contrary to popular belief, the biggest group on the Mayflower were common merchants, craftsmen, skilled workers and indentured servants. Of the 102 passengers, only 41 were religious separatists. The collective group would be called the Pilgrims.

Around the world female slaves were more valuable due to the fact that not only could they work but they created free worker's in the way of bearing children. Of course most people do not realize that slaves were in the beginning only indentured servants, as the holy bible explains: a person willing to exchange six years of their life for housing and education could do so as indentured servants. At the end of the… Read More

the workers have to do their plantation because they have no money

Some common occupations were Artisans people who create pottery, glassware, or tinware. During that time period apprentices or people that have a legal contract to learn how to do a job from somebody else. Printers people who make the newspapers and almanacs. Examples like the New York Weekly Journal or Poor Richards Almanac. Farmers, fishers, and indentured servants all are the hard workers. The farmers and indentured servants work closely since the servants would harvest… Read More

For plantation workers in Assam, Swaraj or freedom meant the right to move freely and retaining a link with the village from which they had come.

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