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Indentured Servitude to Racialized Slavery - Coggle Diagram
Indentured Servitude to Racialized Slavery
Indentured Servitude
Historians
Morgan
The rise of liberty and equality has come hand in hand with slavery and its horrors.
Historians have a hard time seeing how this hypocrisy advanced.
The labor of slaves in a way bought the freedom of Americans.
Many of those most outspoken about the potential rights of Americans were avid slavers.
There is great hypocrisy as well in the fact that Britain, a land of supposed freedom was less free than its colonies.
Jefferson, who owned many slaves said one cannot be free without independence.
Jefferson hated debt, this he said was keeping him captive, this is why he says he enjoyed the profits of slavery.
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Foner
Africans were not protected by the rights of America, could be used forever, were not easily lost to outside societies, were relatively accustomed to harsh agriculture and diseases of Europe.
While race was not a concept, the English had long practiced xenophobic ideologies.
Stereotypes against black people thrived in England, and as opposed to Natives who could easily escape, Africans could not.
Slavery has often existed but not in the same way as in the colonies.
This slavery was a system with one master and many workers, meaning it must be policed to prevent uprisings, and was racially based. The death rate was higher as well because of the hardcore labor required.
Economic agreement of slavery's viability played a great role in the introduction of the system.
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Takaki
Indentured servants who were the poorest of England were often forced to come to America as well.
The indentured servants and the enslaved were struggling with many common burdens, the elite in this society realize them communing would be an issue.
The running away of indentured peoples with the enslaved is a clear signifier of the economic issue these relationships could have.
Punishments were severely enforced against the people in a relationship of different races, this showed that people would not be tolerated mingling in this way.
As Africans are shown as items, as property rather than humans more and more, the idea that they are not needing of humane treatment is further pushed.
The existence of slavery in the West Indies served as a base for the ideas brought into existence in the New World. Some Native Americans were even traded for Africans with the traders of the West Indies to be enslaved.
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Attracting New Laborers in Virginia's profitable tobacco plantations was hard because of news of conflict with Natives and disease spreads.
Indentured Servants are given free passage to America in exchange for 4-7 years of labor.
Nearly 2/3 of new English settlers were Indentured Servants
Way for colonies to become populated
The servants could be beaten for the smallest of infractions, can't marry without master's permission.
Many were promised 50 acres of land by the end of their servitude, not many actually received this.
Only landowners could vote and hold political office.