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Indentured Servitude to Racialized Slavery - Coggle Diagram
Indentured Servitude to Racialized Slavery
Indentured Servitude
17th century, tobacco in Virginia was thriving, but little labor was available.
Indentured servitude was a way for people to passage over to the colonies.
Virginia had a reputation of little food and hard times.
2/3 of English settlers came to Virginia as indentured servants.
Indentured servants started to populate the colonies and landowners would pay for people to come to their land to work for them from about 7-5 years.
They would need permission from owners similarly to enslaved people (marriage)
They could earn plots of land from owners, but not everyone gets it because of the unclear policies.
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Only those who were either taxpayers or "freemen" were allowed to vote in Penn. The advertisement of their colony attracted all in western Europe.
The surplus of indentured servants had negative effects on Pennsylvania as they had disputes with Native Americans. The fewer indentured servants in Maryland and Virginia caused the reliance towards slave labor.
Slave labor started to grow in demand as they served more pros compared to indentured servants. They were easier to dissociate from society and were more reliant in terms of service and resistance to diseases.
How during this time, the English were extremely "racist" towards the alien peoples by dividing them from society and calling them names. However, the idea of racism never fully developed during this time.
The propaganda against Africans grew as they were isolated in almost everything. Native Americans ran away due to decline in population and they seemed less valuable/useful towards the Atlantic colonies.
Slavery has been prevalent in human history since the beginning. Though in the colonies, the Native Americans were involved in small-scale slavery, the slavery in the New World differed greatly.
Slavery was plantation based as it was all overlooked by a single owner. It was more demanding as it had to be strictly policed and slave deaths increased. Slavery became associated with race and divided the whites and blacks.
Slavery became popular as the colonies convinced themselves that it was the best way to solve their labor problems. Slave shipping became popular internationally.
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