[DOC] [TLE] Indentured servant - Wikipedia [PAR] It was often a way for poor Europeans to emigrate to the ... After their indenture 
expired, the immigrants were free to work for themselves or another employer. ... 
21); those over 24 generally came on contracts lasting about 3 years. ... paid their 
passage in return for their labor once in America.". [DOC] [TLE] Indentured Servants in Colonial Virginia - Encyclopedia Virginia [PAR] Dec 8, 2011 ... At first, the Virginia Company of London paid to transport servants across the ... 
Planters, mariners, and merchants then fixed the servants' years of service ... In 
some instances groups of investors promised to give land to their ... not suffice in 
America, where the labor market was less stable than in England. [DOC] [TLE] Indentured Servants In The U.S. | History Detectives | PBS [PAR] Indentured servants first arrived in America in the decade following the ... The 
Thirty Year's War had left Europe's economy depressed, and many skilled and ... 
Servants typically worked four to seven years in exchange for passage, room, 
board, ... For those that survived the work and received their freedom package, 
many... [DOC] [TLE] J! Archive - Show #3187, aired 1998-06-09 [PAR] In "Everything in its Place", Arthur Guiterman wrote, "The birds are in the bushes 
and" this "is at the door" .... Europeans who came to America as this kind of 
servant promised to work for years to pay their passage... [DOC] [TLE] Gottlieb Mittelberger On the Misfortune indentured Servants < 1600 ... [PAR] Cottlieb Mittelberger came to Pennsylvania from Germany in 1750. ... Mittelberger 
served as a schoolmaster and organist in Philadelphia for three years. ... 
examined there and the custom-duties paid, whence it comes that the ships ride 
there 8, ... stench, fumes, horror, vomiting, many kinds of sea-sickness, fever, 
dysentery,... [DOC] [TLE] Indentured Servants [ushistory.org] [PAR] This system seemed to benefit the servant as well. Each indentured servant 
would have their fare across the Atlantic paid in full by their master. A contract 
was... [DOC] [TLE] The Roots of the Southern Workers and Poor [PAR] Initially the Europeans came as conquerors and plunderers, but soon turned to ... 
for many Europeans their first introduction to America was as indentured servants
, forced to work for a period of at least 5 to 7 years to pay for their passage. .... 
African Americans were ground down into a new kind of slavery, and poor whites
... [DOC] [TLE] Indentured Servitude: Why Sell Yourself into Bondage? - Econedlink [PAR] indentured servants  people who signed con- ... years in exchange for passage 
to North America, ... of indentured servitude for work to be performed ... and 
unemployed people to exchange their labor ... the servants came. .... Convenant, 
promise, grant and agree to and with the said (name) to pay for his passage in 
the... [DOC] [TLE] History Lesson 1: History of Immigration Through the 1850s [PAR] Particular attention is paid to the initial European immigration, the bringing of ... 
These individuals promised to serve their masters without pay for a set number of 
years. In return, the masters paid for their passage to America and for their 
upkeep in ... America came as indentured servants who could work for their 
freedom. [DOC] [TLE] Indentured Servitude: A Colonial Market for Labor [PAR] Standard 3: How the values and institutions of European economic life took root 
in the colonies, ... Indentured servants, thus bound, performed any work their 
employers ... Thus, the average length of the indenture  the 4 years mentioned 
in most ... as a sort of market clearing price, paid in labor, for passage to 
America. [DOC] [TLE] As the colonies grew in the 1600's and 1700's, they became the ... [PAR] Over the next 100 years, English settlers would build towns and ... The Puritans 
sailed to New England and set up their colony in ... Puritans at War With Native 
Americans ... promised to settle 50 European ..... Indentured servants promised to 
work without wages for

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