They were not the same. Indentured servants were to serve 7 years, but often they left before they finished their time. They could blend in so it made it hard to find them, but any person who was black was a slave and needed a pass to leave the plantation. Indentured servants were paid and free after 7 years. Slaves were never paid and were considered property.
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∙ 10y agoThey were not the same. Indentured servants were to serve 7 years, but often they left before they finished their time. They could blend in so it made it hard to find them, but any person who was black was a slave and needed a pass to leave the plantation. Indentured servants were paid and free after 7 years. Slaves were never paid and were considered property.
indentured servants or slaves
Fewer indentured servants arrived as conditions in Europe improved.
In the 13 original English colonies, indentured servants were replaced by African slaves because unlike slaves, servants were guaranteed to be eventually released from bondage, and therefore slaves would provide renewable sources of labor.
The plantations system and the lack of indentured servants in America affected the status of Africans in America because Africans where slaves and the would work eternally unlike indentured servants who only worked temporarily.
They used indentured servants.
New England had indentured servants
Theoretically an indentured servant can eventually become free after he's worked long enough.
No. Indentured workers were very early in colonial history and slaves replaced them as workers.
There never were slaves in NY, but there were indentured servants at first. Later, they faded out.
When the colonies required indentured servants or slaves it was to do the work. The first slave arrived in Jamestown in 1609 and after tobacco got a start in the colony workers were needed. Indentured servants didn't work out as well, so more slaves were brought in than indentured servants.
Slaves are owned by other people. Indentured servants signed a 7 year contract and were free people.
New York had indentured servants and slaves.
Slaves
Slaves
slaves and indentured servants were first brought to north American to work producing
Slaves could be worked longer and harder and treated poorer than indentured servants, making them a financially better deal for the owners. In addition, as the laws changed, the children of slaves became slaves themselves. Indentured servants would move on when their debt was paid.