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Indentured servants worked for a predetermined amount of time, normally 7 years, to repay passage to the new world. A slave was owned and would never be free and their children would never be free.
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Did Plantation workers include indentured servants and slaves?
No. Indentured workers were very early in colonial history and slaves replaced them as workers.
Did Jamestown use slaves or indentured servants?
They used indentured servants.
How are slaves and indentured slaves different?
Theoretically an indentured servant can eventually become free after he's worked long enough.
Did new England have indentured servants or slaves?
New England had indentured servants
Where there a alot of indentured servants or slaves in the colony of New York?
There never were slaves in NY, but there were indentured servants at first. Later, they faded out.
How are slaves different to indentured servants?
Slaves are owned by other people. Indentured servants signed a 7 year contract and were free people.
What are benefits for indentured slaves?
A benefit for indentured slaves is that they get their trip payed. They just need to work off the amount of years to pay back.
How did indentured servitude benefit employers?
Indentured servants were cheaper to employers compared to slaves.
Why did the Jamestown settlers want indentured servants and slaves?
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.
How many indentured servants did colonial New York have?
New York had indentured servants and slaves.
Why did landowners prefer slaves to indentured servants?
Slaves could be worked longer and harder and treated poorer than indentured servants, making them a financially better deal for the owners. In addition, as the laws changed, the children of slaves became slaves themselves. Indentured servants would move on when their debt was paid.
Slaves and indentured servants were first brought to North American to work producing?
slaves and indentured servants were first brought to north American to work producing
