FRQ for Three World Collide (Chapter 1-3) What role did unfree labor play in colonial American society? Unfree labor systems have been around in America since the early 1600’s and can still be seen today. The first form of slavery started with the arrival of indentured servants, where people bound themselves to masters in return for passage to America, many of whom wanted to escape their turbulent homeland. Eventually, this turned into the slavery as we have come to know it- African Americans doing backbreaking work for little or no money. While many disregard this system as cruel and unfair, in reality it helped to shape America as it is today.
Indentured servitude is the practice of becoming someone’s laborer for 3 to 10 years. There are three main forms of indentured servants. In Colonial America there were the free-willers or redemptioners who often bound themselves to get free passage to America, those who were kidnapped and taken away, or those felons sentenced for deportation. Indentured servants often came to America because once they were free they would be able to acquire cheap land and have plenty of space to spread out. Many Americans believed that there was only the black slavery.
Indentured Servitude Versus Slavery in the Colonies Your Name HIST 2212 Your Professor April 6, 2010 Indentured servitude and Slavery was an integral part of our nation in the 17th and 18th centuries. The differences between indentured servitude and slavery were minimal during this time. Indentured servants and slaves all had masters that could basically do whatever they wanted with them and treat them however they wanted. In this paper, the differences between indentured servitude and slavery will be uncovered. According to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary and indentured servant is “a person who signs and is bound by indentures to work for another for a specified time especially in return for payment of travel expenses and maintenance.” Indentured servants mainly were laborers that consisted of Germans, English and Scottish people that were looking for a new life for themselves and their families.
Hearing of these rights, along with the rumors that they'd been freed by the king, began talk of their true freedom from slavery. Document 3, spoken by Jean-Marie d'Augy, who was strongly for slavery, says that the slaves in Haiti, were no good for anything else then to provide the labor of farming sugar and coffee, the two main products given to the French. An additional document that would provide a better look into the origins of the Haitian Revolution would be a slave's testament to the harsh labor they underwent daily. The process of the revolution was even worse than the origins. They changed the world's outlook of the Haitian people.
Other masters held up their agreement excellently and treated their servants well. During the 17th and 18th centuries throughout the English colonies, indentured servants and slaves made up the main workforce for land-owning colonists. For a long period of time, both indentured servants and slaves seemed to stand on the same status and were treated about the same. However, as time proceeded, changes in the colonies also brought changes between these two different groups. The path to the Revolution carried new principles regarding freedom and liberty, causing colonists to question their own ideas of freedom and liberty, as well as the idea of what freedom and liberty should mean to slaves and indentured servants.
Chapter 20 Study Guide Vocabulary: 1. Factories - Portuguese trading fortresses and compounds with resident merchants; utilized throughout Portuguese trading empire to assure secure landing places and commerce 2. El Mina - most important of early Portuguese trading factories in the forest zone of Africa. 3. Royal African Company - chartered in 1660s to establish a monopoly over the slave trade among British merchants; supplied African slaves to colonies Barbados, Jamaica, and Virginia 4. triangular trade - commerce linking Africa, the new world colonies, and Europe; slaves carried to America for sugar, and tobacco transported to Europe 5.
They were to serve as indentured servants. An indentured servant is someone who is projected to work for a specified period of time and then freed. When people realized that they purchased any person or thing, they considered it the fact that they owned it. Eventually, this practice would evolve into slavery. Slaves were used to aid in the production of such lucrative crops as tobacco.
Slavery has become a popular discussion after the civil rights movement because it has been allowed and more socially accepted to deal with the issue. Before slavery was a popular discussion, Indentured Servitude is what used to be discussed and has now been replaced with the topic of slavery. Slavery is considered the owning of another human being. Being an indentured servant was kind of like a trade. What we do not know is that slavery and indentured servitude are very closely related on a continuum of coerced labor.
Occasionally, they sought alliances with the dispossessed in the colonies, such as slaves and servants. Before the Industrial Revolution, Rediker proposed class identity emerged that gave the sailors and port workers sense of collective purpose. And to the American Revolution, he was Atlantic seamen and their brethren on shore, who conceived and practiced early ideals of equality and freedom. To find out solutions in the modern world, Rediker insists, we must know the history of the
Teresita U. Sanchez American Nation Mr. Howard Cole October 11, 2006 Mid-Term 1. Describe the lives of slaves, and the efforts to free then and to stop the trade in slaves, during Colonial times and the early Republic. Slavery in America began in Chesapeake after 1619. In the beginning the slaves were treated as indentured servants. Slaves can gain freedom if they worked out their term of being an indentured servant.