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1 Slavery vs. Indentured Servitude Elisa Ybarra Chamberlain University HIST405N Dr. Powell 11/5/2023
2 Slavery has been around for centuries, unfortunately. Many people have formed servitude including African empires. United States shows much history of how slavery was. Indentured Servitude was habitual during the 17 th and 18 th centuries. At this time American colonies grew and developed economically. If it wasn’t for the replacement of Indentured Servitude with slavery, Americans would have not had the opportunity to grow. In this case, there was a continuum of racism which showed a vast amount of social issues among one another. The convention of slavery between Europeans and Africans was quite different. At this time in Africa, slavery was known to those who wanted debt and crime relief. Also in Africa, certain individuals had the chance to become free like the Europeans. Similar to the European serf system, those seeking protection, or relief from starvation, would become the servants of those who provided relief (Openstax,2023). Europeans did not give a form of relief to be free. The European form of slavery was called chattel slavery, where you were one man's property, and you were either bought or sold. In order to be free, the slaves had to escape, which led to group trades and an increase in slavery at this time. As time went on it all southern counties had increasing enslavement. By the 18th century, slavery became permanent and children who were born to enslaved people became enslaved. There were slaves and Indentured servants in the American colonies. In the U. S, European immigrants worked in exchange for the price of passage to America in the 1600’s. The difference is that slaves had no choice but to be slaves. And the indentured servants were given choices such as contracts. Indentured servitude is a form of labor where an individual is under contract to work without a salary to repay an indenture or loan within a certain timeframe (Tardi,2022). Indentured servants enjoyed little personal freedom and some contracts allowed landowners
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