They were English and signed 7 year contracts.
Indentured Servants
Indentured servants weren't from America, but were mainly English from England.
Indentured servants paid off the cost of their voyage to the American colonies by working as unpaid labor for a period of time. Runaways would be hunted and returned. Between the 17th and 18th centuries, half of the white immigrants who came to America came as indentured servants.
By the end of the 1600s, indentured servants were being given 25 acres of land, and their freedom. The first blacks that came to America in the 1610s were treated as indentured servants, and slavery was not decided on the basis.
indentured servants or slaves
Africa
They did have indentured servants in Rhode Island. They would serve for 2-7 years, and then they would get a free piece of land. Indentured servants came to the colonies when they wanted to get away from their old life and get a new one.
For this answer, you should look at Bacon's Rebellion- Where Nathanial Bacon revolted against the governor of Virginia, attempting to burn down all of Jamestown. The reason the former indentured servants threatened the elit is because Bacon's mob was comprised of jaded indentured servants (who were getting the short end of the stick when it came to land) and African slaves. After the uprising, none of the wealthy settlers wanted to hire indentured servants, so they turned to African slavery as their main means of labor.
George Taylor came to America as an indentured servant and signed the declaration.Answernone. indentured servants were considered low people because they were all poorHe had to work to pay for his passage to America.
by boats, white people on boats.
England and Africa
When the settlers first came they first used indentured servants to work off their debt then later the settlers found out that slavery was cheaper and used them a lot more.