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Indentured servants could not marry without the permission of their master, were frequently subject to physical punishment, and did not receive legal favor from the courts. Female indentured servants in particular might be raped and/or sexually abused by their masters. If children were produced the labour would be extended by two years. [14]
Indentured servitude in the Thirteen Colonies (1 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Indentured servitude in the Americas" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
Indentured servitude in the Americas (2 C, 17 P) I. Indian indenture ships to Fiji (43 P) Pages in category "Indentured servitude" The following 10 pages are in this ...
The Indian indenture system was a system of indentured servitude, by which more than 1.6 million workers [1] from British India were transported to labour in European colonies, as a substitute for slave labour, following the abolition of the trade in the early 19th century.
This could be monetary, and it could allow the owner to retain the slave for a period of labor as an indentured servant. [1] In practice, cash compensation rarely was equal to the slave's market value. A number of countries (see "Other nations and empires" section below) enacted forms of compensated emancipation.
This resulted in British indentured servants becoming less attractive to potential colonial masters. [1] A similar law was passed in Ireland, in an act of Parliament, whereby, in return for passage to America, the servant gave the purchaser of his indenture all rights to his labour for an agreed period of time, usually four years.
At first, indentured servants were used for labor. [90] These servants provided up to seven years of service in exchange for having their trip to Jamestown paid for by someone in Jamestown. The person who paid was granted additional land in headrights, dependent on how many persons he paid to travel to the colony.
This is a list of people who were once indentured servants. George Abbitt [1] Matthew Ashby [2] Sally Brant; William Buckland (architect) William Butten; John Casor; Judith Catchpole; William Ewen; Alexandre Exquemelin; Mary Morrell Folger; John Howland; Elizabeth Hubbard (Salem witch trials) Anthony Johnson (colonist) William Moraley ...