Why did colonial masters first adopt the institution of indented servitude rather than Indian or black slavery to meet their demands for labor? Why, then, did black slavery replace indentured servitude?
2007-09-03 07:01:56 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Indentured servitude was really not that much different from out and out slavery. under indentured servitude a person was given a contract to work a piece of land for a certain number of years with the understanding they would own in at the end of that time, with a percentage of the crops and sale of crops going to the land owner. people under these conditions met the same abuses as slaves and were often mostly Irish and poor white people. this often gets over looked in the history lessons along with at least %12 of freed slaves becoming slave owners themselves. slavery replaced servitude for the simple reason that the landowners didn't have to pay them a thing and could with them as they pleased.
2007-09-03 07:11:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Open your history book and start reading.
2007-09-03 07:12:10 · answer #2 · answered by notyou311 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Is this, by any chance, your homework? And it's due tomorrow??
2007-09-03 07:22:32 · answer #3 · answered by Bryce 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Same as the others.
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2007-09-03 07:35:22 · answer #4 · answered by kepjr100 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋