I assume that you are talking about the "middle colonies" in colonial North America that consisted of Pennsylvania, Delaware, New York, and New Jersey . They did live there and mostly worked on the larger farms and estates, either as household staff of as field workers.
It was/is ( yes there are still indentured servants) a method to have their passage paid for to the colonies. They had many reasons to leave.
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.
Indentured servants
No, Because there were no black, Woman, indentured servants, free black, young people or anyone anyone not at the age of 42 or 43 it was not a fair representation of people
Indentured servants were servants who worked for a certain amount of years(usually 7) then were left to be free(or released). Usually they were African Americans traded for other products in Africa- in the triangular trade route.
Indentured servants work less then enslaved people, they get more breaks then the slaves.
There were several different social classes in Colonial Connecticut. At the top was the gentry, these were the upper class. Next came the middle class, followed by farmers, free black people, enslaved house servants, and enslaved field hands.
Nathaniel Bacon's army during Bacon's Rebellion in 1676 consisted of a diverse group of individuals. It included indentured servants, enslaved Africans, poor whites, and some Native Americans.
indentured servants
Indentured servants, also known as bondsmen and bondswomen.
indentured servants and enslaved Africans that what it said in my book
Slaves are owned by other people. Indentured servants signed a 7 year contract and were free people.
all of the colonies had indentured servitude and i think people still do it
It was/is ( yes there are still indentured servants) a method to have their passage paid for to the colonies. They had many reasons to leave.
Yes, during colonial times, North Carolina had a significant population of both enslaved individuals and indentured servants. Enslaved Africans were brought to work on plantations, particularly in the production of tobacco and later rice, while many indentured servants, often from Europe, worked under contracts for a set period in exchange for passage to America and eventual land or freedom. The reliance on both labor systems contributed to the colony's agricultural economy. By the mid-18th century, the number of enslaved people began to outpace that of indentured servants as the demand for labor grew.
Some planters viewed indentured servants as a source of cheap labor to help grow crops and increase profits. They preferred indentured servants over slaves as they were a more temporary and less expensive labor force.
Indentured servants were free white people who were working off Passage to the new world. Slave were people who were owned by another person and were considered property and not human.