Compare Indentured Servitude To Slavery

Plantation owners loved having indentured servants because it really helped them save every bit of money they could. Indentured servants did suffer a lot especially with their working schedules but, with the laws that were later passed in Virginia throughout the years and any few freedoms black had were taken away making them feel hopeless at times because of the racial diversity in the America’s at the time. Servants were being optimistic at the time, they were hoping the laws being passed would not affect their rewards for all the hard work they had endeavored throughout the four to seven year long contracts. There was many uncertainty especially with how society would treat them because of their skin color. With all these new laws being passed, most plantation owners feared for their land, indentured servants were not needed as much anymore, plantation owners turned to slavery were they had more power of the individuals and were guaranteed no profit

However, due to the favorable strategic location as well as kind of society in the Northern colonies, slavery and indentured servants perished in the end. The primary reason of course is on immigration (Brands et al, 53). Aside from that it is already discussed that the North had been passionate about religion and religious commitment, by which they somewhat deemed slavery and for-life servitude as inhuman and not divine (Brands et al, 64). With slavery and indentured servitude dying in the North, the South continues to demolish indentured servitude. Slavery then become the new labor system (Brands et al, 67,73). Moreover, the Southern elitist assured that slavery is far superior than indentured servitude. Due to the convenience and profitability, slavery replaced indentured servants (Brands et al,

Through many hours of girdling and hoeing the stumps they finally could plant seeds. They did this by making a small hole in the ground and inserting the seed into the hole and coving it back up. Even while doing this many immigrants could not make enough money to provide for themselves. Thus the idea of indentured servants came up. An indentured servant is a poor immigrant who signed a contract known as an indenture. This means they are committed to work for four to seven years, with this work they also receive transportation, food, and shelter. The region was mainly made up of white servants and ex-servants so a slavery system didn’t serve any use. Men and women of the African decent were usually forced to be indentured servants, although it was rare they could serve their set amount of years and be free. Slaves could pay their way out of slavery but it was also extremely rare. Almost all of the African race were enslaved and remained enslaved until they died. To buy a passage aboard a ship to America an immigrant had to pay about a year’s worth of wages or they could trade their servitude for the trip. Many people wanted to come to the New World because they made more

The treatment of slaves between the North and the South was drastically different. Slaves in the North typically lived in the same house as their master and worked by themselves, or in small groups (pg. 94). Slaves in the South tended to live in large plantations in which they were housed in plantation outbuildings (pg. 104). The difference between the North and the South in housing and working environment had a direct effect on the integration of African Americans into their new American society. When they were housed in the North with their masters and had limited exposure to other slaves, they tended to adopt the ways of their masters. This was different from the South in that after the day’s labor was finished, slaves typically retreated

Indentured servants, were by all accounts, the main source of labor in the seventeenth century. The labor force was mainly needed for the newly discovery of the cash crop that was tobacco. It was a plant that need a lot of man power to be harvested and transported to port to be shipped back to England. “At first they turned to their overpopulated country for labor, but English indentured servants brought with them the same haphazard habits of work as their masters.” Indentured service being described as haphazard is an understatement; uprising. protests, and demand for better wages, all inhibited the masters from making the most profit. These were some of the many reasons why the masters looked for better ways to make the most amount of money,

In the beginning of the colonies, a large amount of settlers came as indentured servants. The reason for this was that there were many English that wanted to come to the new land. It was cheaper and the labor paid very well, for most of them this was the only way they were able afford the trip. The colonies were in dire need for a labor service so they took advantage of their poverty. It wasn’t for at least around fifty years until Africans started showing up to the colonies. The first Africans were traded for supplies, then more and more trickled in over time. Many of the servants would fraternize with each other and some even had mixed racial relations. This was an act that was punished by the court.

The New England and Chesapeake colonies were established during the early 1700s. Despite the population originating from England, the regions had distinct societies. This was due to the fact that many settlers voyaged to the New World in search of riches, to seek new lives, or for religious freedom. They differed socially, politically, economically, and geographically.

The difference between indentured servants and slaves was that servants had choice and promised freedom. People, mostly those who own land, have the ability to hire servants and slaves. They hire them to help them either with cleaning, raising children, or most commonly, farming or working on the property. Servants and owners create a contract, or deal, where after an agreed amount of time, the servant earns a blank amount of money, maybe land, and receives their freedom in the place that the owner had brought them. Servants most commonly go into servitude because they have then have a way to get to a new world. Slaves have no choice and are sold, by previous owners, to new ones and they have no pay or freedom guaranteed, they just work for

Through the years of 1750 to 1901, the journey of thousands of humans sailed out overseas. With many decisions, they all experienced something different, from those who were forced to leave, had to leave or chose to leave. The voyage of slaves, convicts and free settlers differed immensely, yet, they still had slight similarities.

Since the beginning of American history, conflicts have arose between the North and the South between the varied people that inhabited the land. Clashing viewpoints were common between people and the military, large and small states, and between free and slave states during the civil war. The Civil War was fought from 1861 to 1865, it was fought within the United States and was the North versus the South. The cause was rooted on the discussion of slavery, but also on sectionalism between the North and South. Sectionalism can be defined as when a group restricts their interests to a narrow sphere without concern for the general well-being of other groups. Such as the North South relationship. Although some believe slavery to be the major cause

It is an obvious truth that in order to have a functioning society, there must be workers. In modern, first world countries, labors are paid well and are reasonably treated. However, some third world nations use an economic model harkening back to older times—slavery and serfdom. Between 1450 and 1750, European countries in the Caribbean and in the Old World utilized two forms of cheap labor—slavery and serfdom—to line their coffers and feed their populace. In the Caribbean, slavery was preferred; but in Russia, serfdom ruled. While Caribbean slavery and Russian serfdom are similar in regard to economics costs, they differ in the cultural details and agricultural productions.

There are similarities and differences in the Virginia and Maryland colonies .They both used agriculture, had slave societies, and had representation governments. But they certain crops they planted , how their social structures were and the assemblies in government were different.

Cannibalism was not off the plate in jamestown! The southern colonies were unsuccessful, because of tobacco, servants, starving, swamp area, house of burgesses, and Nate Bacon.

Indentured servitude set the foundation for slavery in the early colonies. Indentured servants would provide free labor for a certain number of years and in the end were rewarded with an area of land. When this became too difficult to provide land, slavery was born. Although morally unethically, the colonist’s economy improved when indentured servitude transitioned into slavery of Africans through Bacon’s Rebellion, triangle trade, and laws allowing mistreatment of slaves as property.

The journey to the New World for both indentured servants and slaves was miserable as the torrid conditions on the ship proved to be deadly for many and devastating for the rest. On the ship carrying the indentured servants to the colonies in America, people were stuffed in cramped confines. An account from Gottlieb Mittelberger, a German schoolmaster who traveled on a ship to Philadelphia with poor immigrants who would become servants, wrote, “One person receives a place of scarcely 2 feet width and 6 feet length in the bedstead, while many a ship carries four to six hundred souls; not to mention the innumerable implements, tools…” (Mittelberger). In a crowded ship with several hundred others and many other items, each indentured servant barely