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By 1650, there were about 300 Africans living in Virginia. They were still considered to be indentured servants, like the approximately 4000 white indentured people, since a slave law was not passed in the colony until 1661. [3] [4]
Modern map of the Caribbean. The Irish went to Barbados, Jamaica and the Leeward Islands.. Irish indentured servants were Irish people who became indentured servants in territories under the control of the British Empire, such as the British West Indies (particularly Barbados, Jamaica and the Leeward Islands), British North America and later Australia.
From the start, Africans were not treated the same as English indentured servants. [94] White indentured servants were recorded in early muster (census) records with their date of arrival, surnames, and marital status. Blacks were listed by only their first names, if their names were listed at all. [96]
Feb. 23—GREENSBURG — "Bound for Passage: The Story of an Indentured Servant" is coming to the Greensburg/Decatur County Public Library at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 12. A Living History program ...
Indentured servitude of Irish and other European peoples occurred in seventeenth-century Barbados, and was fundamentally different from enslavement: an enslaved African's body was owned, as were the bodies of their children, while the labour of indentured servants was under contractual ownership of another person.
In 1661 Virginia law prohibited the inappropriate burial of indentured servants. [33] The Transportation Act 1717 established a regulated system for indentured criminal laborers. In the 18th century, wages in Great Britain were low because of a surplus of labor.
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A sizable indentured servants' uprising occurred in Virginia in 1661 over the issue of adequate food. The customary ration for servants at the time included meat three times a week. When a planter named Major Goodwin decided to keep his servants on a diet of cornbread and water, discontent followed.