Learn About It (Teacher-led) Indentured vs Slave
Indentured Servitude Vs Slavery
Indentured Servant - A person under contract to work for another person for a definite period of time, usually without pay but in exchange for free passage to a new country. Predominantly European.
- Not allowed to marry until servitude complete.
- Can Be Paid.
- Children not born into servitude.
- Voluntary
- Legal restrictions on punishments
- contracted yrs of service 2 - 7 years
Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries people were kidnapped from the continent of Africa, forced into slavery in the American colonies and exploited to work as Slaves, replacing indentured servants, and labor in the production of crops such as tobacco and cotton.
Historians have estimated that 6 to 7 million black slaves were imported to the New World during the 18th century alone, depriving the African continent of some of its healthiest and ablest men and women
Slave - A person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them. Typically for life. Predominantly African.
- System based strictly on race.
- Children born into slavery.
- Can not marry (Jumping the Broom)
- Money earned goes to master.
- Forced
- No restrictions on punishments
- Service for life
Black slaves worked mainly on the tobacco, rice and indigo plantations of the southern coast, from the Chesapeake Bay colonies of Maryland and Virginia south to Georgia.