who were indentured servants?
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Indentured servitude An indentured servant or indentured laborer is an employee within a system of unfree labor who is bound by a signed or forced contract to work for a particular employer for a fixed time. The contract often lets the employer sell the labor of an indenturee to a third party. Indenturees usually enter into an indenture for a specific payment or other benefit, or to meet a legal obligation, such as debt bondage. On completion of the contract, indentured servants were given their freedom, and occasio
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Indentured servitude Over a period of 40 years, from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century, labor for the sugar-cane fields of Queensland, Australia included an element of coercive recruitment and indentured servitude of the 62,000 South Sea Islanders.
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- In September 1620, during the reign of King James I, around 100 English men and women–many of them members of the English Separatist Church–set sail for the New World aboard the Mayflower, a three-masted merchant ship.
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- Crispus Attucks (. 1723—March 5, 1770) may have been a Native American slave or freeman, merchant seaman and dockworker of Wampanoag and African descent. His father was an African-born slave and his mother a Native American. He was the first casualty of the Boston massacre, in Boston, Massachusetts, and is widely considered to be the first American casualty in the American Revolutionary War.
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indentured servant The indentured servant could be held usually for but a few years. The Planters of Colonial Virginia Thomas J. Wertenbaker The value of the Indian servant was about the same as that of the English indentured servant.
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- indentured servant. a person who came to America and was placed under contract to work for another over a period of time, usually seven years, especially during the 17th to 19th centuries. Generally, indentured servants included redemptioners, victims of religious or political persecution, persons kidnapped for the purpose, convicts, and paupers.
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- Samuel Burris. More People ». Harriet Tubman, who was born a slave near Cambridge, Maryland, was one of the most famous Underground Railroad conductors. After making her own successful escape, she came back to Maryland many times to lead family members, friends, and other slaves to freedom. She knew many routes through the woods and fields.
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- When the drug is taken in large doses, it has a high potential of causing lethal changes in blood pressure.Common clonidine side effects: 1  Dry mouth. 2  Fatigue. 3  Headache. 4  Constipation. 5  Vomiting. 6  Nausea. 7  Anxiety.
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Law Library of Congress Frequently, wills or contracts that granted freedom or conveyed realty or personalty as dower were contested in court. The laws and resulting court cases that involved slavery and indentured servants have had a major impact on America, its men and women alike, in both the past and the present.
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- nonemployee employees the borrowed servant doctrine part ii part i of this nonemployee employee mini series introduced the three types of employers and began the discussion regarding what constitutes or creates control
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- 1 Although indentured servants become free and obtained their own land, they were given land that no one wanted. 2  This discrimination led to Bacon's rebellion. 3  Bacon's rebellion was the first rebellion in Colonial America. 4  The rebellion was a protest against Sir William Berkeley, governors of Virginia.
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- The first Africans at Jamestown were purchased as indentured servants from the Dutch. Over the course of two centuries, however, most Africans in the Americas were bought and sold as a source of slave labor, were denied the most basic human rights and were often subject to abusive treatment.
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Law Library of Congress If she could not pay, she would become an indentured servant for five years. Whether or not the fine was paid, however, the child would be bound in service for thirty years. The laws that restricted slaves or indentured servants generally addressed the owners and penalized them for breaking the law.
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- These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'indentured servant.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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Slavery in the United States During most of the British colonial period, slavery existed in all the colonies. People enslaved in the North typically worked as house servants, artisans, laborers and craftsmen, with the greater number in cities. Many men worked on the docks and in shipping.
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Anne Hutchinson in Massachusetts Bay Anne Hutchinson was a woman of extraordinary intelligence and energy, gifted with a captivating personality that drew people toward her. Her stature was enhanced among Puritans by a superior knowledge of the Bible, developed over years of study and reflection, when the scriptures were viewed as the source of religious and moral teaching.
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slavery Also found in: Thesaurus, Legal, Financial, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia. 1. the state or period of being indentured or apprenticed; apprenticeship. 2. the state or period of being a servant bound to service for a specified time in return for passage to a colony.
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AP US History Chapter 7 He was a Master propagandist and an engineer of rebellion. Though very weak and feeble in appearance, he was a strong politician and leader that was very aware and sensitive to the rights of the colonists. He organized the local committees of correspondence in Massachusetts, starting with Boston in 1772.
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Talk:Indentured servitude Slavery in the north was primarily in the shape of indentured slavery but slavery in the classic sense also existed side by side since 1619. Slavery in the north was abolished in the period of 1780-1804 and replaced with involuntary indentured servitude usually with contracts of 28 years duration.
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American Revolution African Americans. 1  James Armistead - Armistead was an American spy who worked as a double agent. He fed the British false information and also provided important information to the Americans that helped lead to victory at the Battle of Yorktown. 2  Crispus Attucks - Attucks was the first patriot killed at the Boston Massacre.
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- In the colony's early years, survival, not tradition, influenced the roles of men and women, whether white or black, free or unfree. Planters' wives, indentured servants, and. labored in the tobacco fields alongside one another, while an unmarried woman with land could engage in business the same way a man might.
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What Is an Indentured Apprenticeship? The Indenture Agreement. Modern apprentices still sign a contract called an indenture, but the terms are much less demanding than the historical apprenticeship indenture. Apprentices in the past were legally bound to their masters until the end of their term, and could be captured and returned to the master if they ran away.
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- 86) These indentured women shook the fabric of patriarchy in such a way that in 1916, a year before the end of indentureship, a group of indentured laborers filed a formal complaint against the actions of Indian women.
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Indenture Half of an indenture document of 1723 showing the randomly cut edge at the top. An indenture is a legal contract that reflects or covers a debt or purchase obligation. It specifically refers to two types of practices: in historical usage, an indentured servant status, and in modern usage, it is an instrument used for commercial debt or real estate transaction. 1 Historical usage.
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- East Indians arrived for Indentured labor in Trinidad. Most were poor indians who came to make a life for themselves. They were housed in Community Barracks and worked long hr…s to earn small wages. When their time of Indentureship was complete, the cost of going back to India was often too high. Also, during their time, the started to grow family roots in Trinidad.
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indentured servant Indentured servant definition, a person who came to America and was placed under contract to work for another over a period of time, usually seven years, especially during the 17th to 19th centuries. Generally, indentured servants included redemptioners, victims of religious or political persecution, persons kidnapped for the purpose, convicts, and paupers.