Search the Registers of Servants Sent to Foreign Plantations, 1654 - 1686 ... This database of indenture contracts includes over 10,000 indentured servants contracts from four different registers.
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Unlike apprenticeship contracts, those signed by the thousands of indentured servants coming from England included no promises other than the promise to work for a set number of years as redemption for the passage.
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Indentured servants first arrived in America in the decade following the settlement of Jamestown by the Virginia Company in 1607. ... Indentured servants became vital to the colonial economy.
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; All were indentured servants. During their time as servants, they were fed and housed. Afterwards, they would be given what were known as "freedom dues," which usually included a piece of land and supplies, including a gun.
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Indentured servants were people who worked without pay. Europeans who owned money they could not pay back were often sent to prison. The servants signed contracts that required them to work from three to seven years in exchange for paying off their debts.
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Before the Civil War, slaves and indentured servants were considered personal property, and they or their descendants could be sold or inherited like any other personalty. Like other property, ... Frequently, wills or contracts that granted freedom or conveyed realty or personalty as dower were contested in court.
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Crossland immigrant records in Virginia, page 4: indentured servants. ... About 70% of migrants from England who came between 1630-1660 were indentured servants;
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Indentured servant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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An indentured servant is a laborer under contract to an employer for a fixed period of time, typically three to seven years, in exchange for their transportation, food, drink, clothing, lodging and ...
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