Indentured Servants In The U. S. | History Detectives | PBS Servants typically worked four to seven years in exchange for passage, room, board, lodging and freedom dues While the life of an indentured servant was harsh and restrictive, it wasn't slavery
Indentured Servants [ushistory. org] While slaves existed in the English colonies throughout the 1600s, indentured servitude was the method of choice employed by many planters before the 1680s This system provided incentives for both the master and servant to increase the working population of the Chesapeake colonies
Indentured Servants – HIS114 – United States to 1870 In the early-to-mid seventeenth century, most laborers in the tobacco fields were indentured servants Indentured servants from England agreed to work for a master for a period of three to seven years in return for passage to the Americas and “freedom dues” at the end of their contract
Indentured Servitude in the Colonial U. S. – EH. net In some sense the colonies’ early experience with indentured servants paved the way for the transition to slavery Like slaves, indentured servants were unfree, and ownership of their labor could be freely transferred from one owner to another
Indentured Servants - Encyclopedia. com At the end of their indenture, servants received their freedom and "freedom dues," which consisted at various times and different locations of land, clothing, corn, tobacco, a musket, blankets, or tools—or some combination of these
Indentured Servants - Mount Clare Indentured servants voluntarily entered into work contracts for the price of their transatlantic passage They earned freedom dues at the end of their terms
6. Servitude, in ECONOMIES, Becoming American: The British . . . As "indentured servants," they had few freedoms while in service to their "masters"; but when their contracts were fulfilled after four to seven years, they were free No such "contract" existed for enslaved Africans, of course, whose numbers escalated in the 1700s as British America craved more laborers