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Slavery vs. Indentured Servitude
Elisa Ybarra
Chamberlain University
HIST405N
Dr. Powell
11/5/2023
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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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