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About
Indentured Servant 1627
Contract to be
a servant for four years on a Virginia Plantation in exchange
for 50 acres of land. They would live no better than a slave. Great to
personalize because you can stipulate any terms and conditions.
Indentured Servitude: work under an unbreakable
contract for a fixed period, in return for room and board, training, or
pay.
BEFORE THE JOURNEY: "Many of the spirits
[people who recruited indentured servants] haunted the London slums and
those of Bristol and other seaports. It was not difficult to find hungry
and thirsty victims who, over a dinner and much liquor, would sign
anything before them. The spirit would then hustle his prey to his
headquarters to be added to a waiting company of others, safely kept
where they could not escape until a ship was ready for them. An easier
way was to pick up a sleeping drunk from the gutter and put him aboard a
vessel for America, where, with no indenture, he could be sold to his
own disadvantage and with the American planter's gain. Children were
valuable and could be enticed with candy to come along with a spirit.
Sometimes they, and older people too, were seized by force." |
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