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The term used for such people was indentured servants. Normally when their debts were paid they became free persons.

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This process made many people indentured servants, who were given free passage to America in exchange for years of labor.

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Q: Some settlers who wanted to go to America were too poor to pay for the voyage therefore many of them became servants?
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