Indentured_Servants

Indentured Servants The Dutch, for a while, controlled the slave trade. At first thousands, then hundreds of thousands of slaves, mostly from Africa, were being transported from various parts of the world. There were even traces of slavery in some African kingdoms. Slavery became a way for wealthy landowners to own larger fields of crops and have labors to do the work for a cheap price. It became popular and started to spread all of Europe. Along with slavery was the use of indentured servants. Many poor English people wished to go to America, but could not afford the journey. Landowners paid for their way to America in exchange a term of indentured servitude. The wealthy no longer had to take care of their own land, they used people who considered below them to the work, slaves and indentured servants. Europeans developed a “new agricultural and commercial order – the South Atlantic system” (Henretta 74). They made plantations to grow sugar, tobacco, rice, and other products. These investors provided all the necessary needs to adequately run each plantation. They used imported African Americans to do the labor on these plantations. slaves, slavery, servants, indentured, trade, america, way, plantation, owners, work, sugar, people, land, african, slave, plantations, grow, americans, wealthy, tobacco, term, profitable, products, poor, over, money, men, europe, english, became, along, after, years, very, system