AMH 2010 Lecture Notes - Indentured Servant, Guerrilla Warfare, Atlantic Ocean
12 Sep 2013
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Allowed for cultural norms to become better defined by region. Treated indentured servants really bad: roughly 40% of indentured servants died before completing their servitude years. English settlers began to suspend humane norms . Indentured servants: young men, 18 to 24: led to raucous society. Basically the south was dumb north balled hard . Thought that when an indentured servant completed their servitude time and freed they would rebel. Back then a long work day was considered all of 4 hours. Hard work to the indentured servants workers was extremely insanely painful. Europeans moved in farther into the colonies: children of past native americans now really good fighters, guerilla warfare. Led to the idea of the rich get richer while the poor get poorer : clearly indentured servants aren"t stable. By law slaves had no civil liberties. Slave trade: largest forced migration in world history: of every 6 people who crossed the atlantic ocean 5 were african, no choice.
