Indentured Servants

People who wanted to start a life in the colonies agreed to sign contracts to become indentured servants.
The system of indentured servants was the answer to getting beggars and homeless people off the streets of England.
People like convicts, vagabonds, rogues, and undesirables choose to be indentured servants rather than go to jail.
Most of the indentured servants worked in the tobacco fields of Virginia and Maryland.
Poor people in England would sell themselves into indenture just to survive. They were offered a trip to North America, but they had to do 4 to 7 years of unpaid work for their master in exchange.
There was an advertisement about the indentured servants in a newspaper called the Virginia Gazette.
Virginia GazetteJust arrived at Leedstown, the Ship Justitia, with about one Hundred Healthy Servants, Men Women and Boys.
Virginia GazetteJust arrived at Leedstown, the Ship Justitia, with about one hundred healthy servants, men, women, and boys.

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