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18 Μαΐ 2024 · Unlike chattel slaves who were treated as property with no legal rights, indentured servants signed contracts binding them to work for a set period in exchange for passage to America, food, clothing, and shelter.
The differences between chattel slavery and indentured servitude. Explore the origins, treatment and end of term of both systems.
How does Richard Frethorn describe his experience as an indentured servant? How might either of them respond to George Alsop’s arguments about the social benefits of such a system? What do we learn about the concepts of unfree labor and race? Why might slavery have become the more prevalent system?
Slavery was a lifelong condition, passed down through generations, while indentured servitude had a fixed term. Despite these differences, both groups faced harsh working conditions and limited personal freedoms.
Indentured servitude was a form of contracted slavery common in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries. It took several different forms but most individuals were forced into indentured service by non-payment of debts.
During the 16th through the 18th centuries, about 320,000 indentured servants, primarily from England but also from Scotland, Ireland, and elsewhere, crossed the Atlantic Ocean to the British colonies in the Americas, making up about 80 percent of white immigrants.
9 Ιουλ 2020 · Both Indentured Servants and Convicts were held as chattel, albeit a temporary form. This essay suggests that historians of both slavery and unfree labour need to untangle the word chattel from the word slave – for a person who is chattel is not always a slave (and a slave is not always chattel).
