an indentured servant
An indentured servant
An indentured servant.
a graph showing the number of native americans between 1492 and 1600~ bunybo luv ya 4eva
Mexico gave 26 empresarios large grants of Texas land and in return they promised to fill it with a certain number of settlers.
The continent of Africa has a population of just over 1.1 billion people. Nigeria is the most populated country in Africa.
Because the number of extant sources is usually greater, and that makes the corroboration of details easier. There may be certain events or aspects of the modern period that have few sources, however, and in that case, reconstructing that part of modern history should prove difficult and challenging, if not impossible.
A typical slave ship carried no less then 200 and no more than 500 slaves when it departed from West Africa. There may have been as many as 20 million slaves transported to the Americas over the years of the slave trade. On most voyages one third of the ship's cargo failed to complete the voyage due to poor hygiene, illness or being crushed by the number of people, That cargo loss (slaves) where merely part of the cost of doing business. A boat from the Middle Passage would have the lower decks crammed full of slaves. Normally the wasted space would only count up to around 1 or 2 metres. Life was tough for a slave. Your hands were cuffed and you would be in pitch black for a few months. Many were temporarily blinded through shock of seeing bright light after all those days.
The contract of work in exchange for passage to America was known as indentured servitude. A person signed a paper agreeing to work for someone a certain number of years in exchange for a ticket to the New World.
An indentured servant
An indentured servant
An indentured servant
An indentured servant
An indentured servant
An indentured servant
An indentured servant
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Indentured servants
Many people who wanted to immigrate to the new world didn't have money for passage. One solution to this problem was to become an indentured servant. Their passage was paid for in exchange for a certain amount of labor, usually 7 years, once they arrived.
Indentured servant.