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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.
There were no large plantations in Canada, and therefore no demand for a large slave work force of the sort that existed in most European colonies in the Americas. [25] Nevertheless, slaves in Canada were subjected to the same physical, psychological, and sexual violence and abuse as their American counterparts. [26]
The American Civil War began in 1861. The 13th Amendment, effective December 6, 1865, abolished slavery in the U.S. The 13th Amendment, effective December 6, 1865, abolished slavery in the U.S. In the United States before 1865, a slave state was a state in which slavery and the internal or domestic slave trade were legal, while a free state was ...
Slave patrols: In the slave-dependent portions of North America, varying degrees of legal authority backed slave patrols by plantation owners and other free whites to ensure that enslaved people were not free to move about at night, and to generally enforce the restrictions on slaves.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; ... Indentured servitude in the Americas (2 C, 17 P) I. Indian indenture ships to Fiji (43 P)
Indentured servitude in British America was the prominent system of labor in the British American colonies until it was eventually supplanted by slavery. [1] During its time, the system was so prominent that more than half of all immigrants to British colonies south of New England were white servants, and that nearly half of total white ...
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.