It would be great if people would stop conflating the two. They weren't the same, not on any stretch. Not one black person was ever asked "Hey-- do you wanna be my slave for a few years in exchange for passage to the new world?" Part of the indentured servitude contract generally required the "masters" to provide the servant with land after their term of servitude was up. Originally Posted by Grace Preston
You need to do more than a light google before you start spouting nonsense under the guise of being educated on a subject. Indentured servants were chattel. Freedom dues were more often than not bushels of corn and the clothes on their back. Owners sold contracts and rewrote the terms freely. Children were locked in to contracts that took them to the age of 21. If an indentured female got pregnant they took her kid from her. The Virginia tobacco season was 10 months of dusk to dawn work. The workday, the living conditions, and disease combined for an exorbitantly high mortality rate. If they got out of line they got the whip. You seem to think indentured servitude was like a paid apprenticeship. Maybe cast a bigger net with your research before you make another ham-fisted attempt at being woke.