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This 3 page paper discusses the indentured servitude in colonial America during the 1600's from an economic standpoint. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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person could work as an indentured servant and eventually buy ones way onto some land and a place of his own. Unfortunately, as good as the system sounds, it did
not work in the long run. David Galensons book, The Rise and Fall of Indentured Servitude in America, examples and discusses what went wrong. The initial plan was to
recruit workers from Europe who would be rented to plantation owners. In return, the owners would reimburse the company for the money it took to ship them over to America.
This whole process was directly overseen by the Virginia Company, from the recruitment to the sale of the workers. One of the factors that they overlooked was the way
in which the servants would be used by the plantation owners. Often the conditions in which the servants lived were appalling. And, unlike the pretty picture that had been painted
for them in Europe, instead of using the skills that they had, they were singularly marched out into the fields to work as farm hands, rather than gardeners or groundskeepers.
Other abuses included maltreatment, so much so that many servants simply ran away or attempted to return to Europe. Another popular abuse by the owners were to extend the contract
of a servant who has been deemed unruly and insubordinate. The oversight by the Virginia Company was doomed from the beginning because they were overseeing the operation from too
remote a location. There was no way to curtail the abuses by the owners. In theory a servant was only selling their labor, but in reality, they were treated as
slaves. This was another factor that the company had not figured on, nor had the manpower to confront. In short, according to Galenson, masters were encouraged to beat their servants
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