Indentured Servants Pros And Cons

During the 18th century, indentured servitude had become very common in British North America; this was one way many poor Europeans could come to America for a “better” life. In order to emigrate to the American colonies, they would sign long-term labor contracts, to pay off the debt they picked up when they wanted to come to the American colonies. The primary source, “Gottlieb Mittelberger on the Trade in Indentured Servants” is written by Mittelberger himself in 1750, who was an emigrant that arrived in British North America as an indentured servant. In this source, he explains the negatives of coming to British North America; the ups and downs he faced, for instance: the long and horrible voyage conditions, and the sale of human beings once they had landed.

In the essay "The Evolution of Slavery in Colonial America," author Jon Butler examines the growth of the slave practice in the land which would become the United States. As the European nations began exploring North America, they overtook the native populations of the areas and turned them into unpaid laborers. However, these people were not enough to supply landholders with sufficient aid. To make up the necessary numbers, plantation owners utilized indentured servants and then a number of slaves imported from Africa. Indentured servants were people who would be taken from the Old World to the New in order to start a new life. However, since they would not have the necessary funds to pay for their transportation, their journey would be funded by either a manufacturer or a plantation owner and their debt would be paid off by working for their benefactor. Slaves were not given this opportunity. These were people who were taken from their homes and families and forced into labor by threat of violence or death. This practice did not begin in the United States, but America was still allowing slavery well into the 19th century, long after other nations had come to the conclusion that slavery was inhumane and brutal.

The Salem Witch Trials, also know as the Salem Witchcraft Trials were legal proceedings which took place of course in the Salem Village of Massachusetts. These trials began during the spring of 1692, after a group of young girls in the village, claimed to be possessed by the devil accusing several local women of practicing the craft. Victims were prosecuted and executed for reputedly practicing witchcraft, when little to no evidence of the act itself existed. This historical period resulted in twenty people, mostly women, being hung for black magic conspiracies. Neighbors accused neighbors; even church members accused other church members of witchcraft. Others were accused, but fled the area before they could be arrested. During this time

In 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts, hysteria broke out throughout the town in an event that later became known as the Salem Witch Trials. They were the largest account of witch hangings ever in America, as 20 women and men were put to death for being accused of practicing witchcraft. Historians have been debating about how these trials were caused. The frenzy in Salem happened because at first, young girls were afraid of punishment and wanted to avoid it so they blamed older women and accused them of being witches. These accusations began to spiral out of control when the religion of the town supported the allegations, which causes paranoia and panic to spread throughout Salem, which blinded the townspeople from clues revealing that the

In a mysterious event in which more than twenty people were executed, all of the reasoning behind it could have been a highly complex, biased, and religious lie. The Salem Witch Trial Hysteria of 1692 took place in Salem, a city in colonial Massachusetts, and it was an event in which various people with certain characteristics were accused of being witches, or people possessed by the Devil himself. The Witch Trial Hysteria was caused by both the accusations of teenage, single girls against the panicking older, married women in Salem and the false honesty of the accusing girls.

In 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts was the setting for an infamous American witchcraft. It was the years when people are plagued with superstitions and monstrous fears that spawned witch-hunts on both sides of the Atlantic. That also maintains a wide witch panic that was a product of a community undergoing severe religious and cultural change. Besides, the Puritans had lost the royal charter that had allowed them to govern their colony free from interference by the mother country. The result was that many leaders and citizens began to see satanic conspiracies at work that eroded the cherished institutions of their already shaky society.

The Salem witchcraft trials were a particularly dark and mysterious time in the history of America. These trials that were arranged upon the belief of witchcraft could have multiple explanations. In my opinion these trials began as a combination between religious factors, boredom, social issues and all coming together in a mess of suspicion and deceit. Although these trials did start because of the Puritan’s imagination, their true religious belief in witchcraft, childish antics, and their hatred for their neighbors helped to fuel their imagination. The people’s imagination began to lead the people in the town of Salem, Massachusetts into a deadly witch hunt.

Indentured servants were used in early colonial times as a means of passage to the new world. The cash crops of the early settlers were exhaustingly labor intensive. In fact, U.S. History (2015) indicated that “the growth of tobacco, rice, and indigo and the plantation economy created a tremendous need for labor in Southern English America” (p. 1). The technology did not exist at the time for machinery that clears the ground and works the land as it does today. The work had to be done by hand; from clearing and prepping the fields to harvesting the crops, it was all manual labor for which the new land did not have ample supply of.

The Salem Witch Trials was from 1692-1693, in the town of Salem, Massachusetts. There was a circle of girls who wanted to have a little fun so they got involved in the sport of witchcraft. They went to the minister’s house every day to visit Tituba, the Caribbean slave, to join her for palm and tea leaf reading. The girls took it too far though. They pretended to have fits and started accusing people of being witches. They went so far that people started to be hung for being witches but they weren’t. The girls didn’t understand that what they were doing was wrong. But then it got worse… the girls started to believe their own lies. Salem was doomed… after the girls began to think that what they said was true…

The Salem Witch Trials were a set of hearings and prosecutions in Salem, Massachusetts that were nothing short of horrific and involved many people accused of witchcraft. The trials that took place were seen as moral in the eyes of the leaders in Salem but as we know today, they were most certainly immoral. Innocent women were hanged, drowned, and even an innocent man was pressed to death. The unforgettable events of the Salem Witch Trials began in 1692, when several young girls accused numerous women of the town of witchcraft. There were fears about religious extremists as many critics perceived witchcraft as being counterproductive.

Slaves existed in the England's North American colonies throughout the 1600s. However, indentured servitude was very common before the 1680s. “For half a century or so after 1620, most laborers were indentured servants; only a small proportion were African slaves” (Clark, Hewitt, Brown& Jaffee, 2007 p64). Indentured servants were people who signed an indenture, a contract by which they agreed to work for a serval number of years in exchange for transportation to colonies; in addition, they would get food, clothing, land, and freedom.

The Salem Witch Trials began in 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts (Salem Witch Trials 1). Three girls were accused of witchcraft, and then proceed to blame the whole town of witchcraft (Salem Witch Trials 1). Bridget Bishop was the first woman hanged in June (Salem Witch Trials 1). Many people denied witchcraft in Salem (Salem Witch Trials 1). 40,000 to 60,000 people were executed for being accused of witchcraft (Salem Witch Trials 2). General Court declared a day of fasting for the tragedy (Salem Witch Trials 1). “Thought the respected Minister Cotton Mather had warned of the dubious value of spectral evidence, his concerns went largely unheeded during the Salem Witch Trials,” (Salem Witch Trials 1).

It all started sometime around February when Betty Parris became oddly sick, as well as her friends developing the same symptoms. With that being said, the talk of witchcraft came up. A doctor called upon the girls for examination, where he found no cure to the effect. He assumed it was something of the supernatural because witches mostly targeted children. The girls formed a group that consists of Abigail, Mary, Betty, Mercy, and some other girls that complained of the devil pinching and biting them. The town people believed them because they believed that the devil was real. The act that was played by the girls to the audience put innocent people in jail. The only way to avoid being hung is to confess to the devil’s work ( The Crucible). The court system was highly unfair. The court would ask the defendant to do a touching test where the defendant touched an afflicted person to see if their touch was assumed to be the touch of the witches (Famous American Witch Trials:Salem Witch Trials 1692 ). People who were accused as witches had no witnesses to testify on their side they can only speak for themselves based on influence in the community. The first to ever be accused was Bridget Bishop a 60 year old women. Her trial was held on June 2nd 1692 where people

Both indentured servants and slaves worked in the fields to plant crops. Slaves and servants were also given lesser food. We see an example of this in the letter by Frethorne. In the letter he states “but must work hard both early and late for a mess of water gruel and a mouthful of bread and beef. A mouthful of bread for a penny loaf must serve for four men which is most pitiful” . This shows that the indentured servants were not fed properly and were basically starving while they worked in America. The African American slaves were also not fed well either, this was because their masters and other citizens saw them as worthless or beneath them socially. Slaves and servants were also basically working in foreign lands. Indentured servants had never set foot in America so when they did they were working in a foreign land. Same as the slaves, when the slaves where imported from Africa and taken to England or America they were working in a foreign

During the colonization era, most of the laborers came from Great Britain as indentured servants. An indentured servant is a person that signed a contract to pay for their passage to America by working. They usually worked on a farm since the colonies were based on agriculture. These servants were young laborers that intended on becoming permanent residents of the Chesapeake Bay settlements. Some servant owners treated them the same way they treated their family members, whether it was good or bad. Sometimes, convicted criminals were transported to the colonies as indentured servants instead of being imprisoned. Indentured servants weren’t considered slaves. However, when they came to Virginia they were required to work four to seven years to pay for the cost of their transportation. Some found that the major problem with indentured servants was most of them left after several years after they became skilled. It was estimated that over half of all of the white immigrants came as indentured servants. The number of indentured servants was the highest in the South.