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Half of an indenture document of 1723 showing the randomly cut edge at the top. An indenture is a legal contract that reflects an agreement between two parties. Although the term is most familiarly used to refer to a labor contract between an employer and a laborer with an indentured servant status, historically indentures were used for a variety of contracts, including transfers and rents of ...
An indenture signed by Henry Mayer, with an "X", in 1738. ... [39] An example is a former indentured servant in Barbados, Cornelius Bryan, ...
The majority of indentured servants ended up in the American South, where cash crops necessitated labor-intensive farming. As the Northern colonies moved toward industrialization, they received far less indentured immigration. [42] For example, 96% of English emigrants to Virginia and Maryland from 1773 to 1776
Before the passing of the 1705 Virginia Slave Code Act, African Americans served as indentured servants. [citation needed] [clarification needed] This law, after being passed, transformed servitude into slavery, turning many African Americans from extended servitude to a bonded and forced lifetime commitment to slavery.
The Indian indenture system was a system of indentured servitude, ... For example, in Demerara an ordinance in 1864 made it a crime for a labourer to be absent from ...
Indentured servitude; Forced labour; Fugitive slaves. laws; convention; Great Dismal Swamp maroons; List of slaves. ... Examples of slave codes. Barbados slave code ...
Richard Frethorne was an indentured servant at Martin's Hundred, Virginia in 1622-1623. He is known as the author of letters detailing his miserable condition in Virginia. He is known as the author of letters detailing his miserable condition in Virginia.
An example of how the indentured servant was viewed is the 1662 Virginia law that forced both slave and indentured servant females, who bore children by their masters, to serve even more time, after their indentures had ended, for an additional two years, for the local churchwardens.