indentured servants
Indentured servants.
Indentured Servant
indentured servants
Indentured Servants. Look it up next time! Chapter 4's not that long.
Some immigrants from England paid for their passage to America by becoming indentured servants. Instead of paying for their passage in cash, they paid for it with labor. When their debt was paid, they were free to leave the service of their employer.
Indentured Servant
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The US has its name on each immigrants. The Birds or Passage are the immigrants who came to earn money for a certain period then will return to their homeland.
The contract of work in exchange for passage to America was known as indentured servitude. A person signed a paper agreeing to work for someone a certain number of years in exchange for a ticket to the New World.
Indentured servants
To get permission to make their passage to America, the Pilgrims had to first obtain patents that allowed them to settle there. These patents were obtained by the Virginia Company.
Work for seven years.