How many British know about the Indentured System?
My guess is that kids at school here in UK will know something of it when they learn about the colonisation of North America by the Brits. No only did ordinary folk move to the new colonies over time, but so too did Indentured servants and a whole army of slaves. Indentured Servitude in Colonial America The earliest indentured servants were brought to Virginia as farm laborers. … In practice, however, indentured servants were basically slaves and the … http://www.geocities.com/nai_cilh/servit… – Cached Indentured Servants and Transported Convicts White indentured servants came from all over Great Britain. Men, women, and sometimes children signed a contract with a master to serve a term of 4 to 7 … http://www.stratfordhall.org/ed-servants… In addition to sending Indentured Servants to the American Colonies, we also dumped our unw
