option. This is using slaves is more economically beneficial then using indentured servants. Slaves and indentured servants were treated much differently. Slaves were not allowed to be freed like indentured servants after a certain amount of time. The slaves would work from the moment they’re were born to moment of their death. For the Europeans, this meant that they can get more labour out of one slave then an indentured servant. Another beneficial aspects of owning slaves for the European is that
Indentured Servants into Racial Slavery The beginning of the consequential series of events that eventually lead to one of the worst treatments one man can inflict on another man, was chattel slavery. Chattel slavery was when a man or woman’s dignity was completely taken from them. This was done by the taking of their original name and given a new extremely literal one like “Slave” or “Property”. They were legally owned. They could be purchased, sold, and even inherited. Forced to leave families
So, this system was passed to encourage more settlers into the colony by promising them a certain amount of acres of land. Slavery begins- The need for more labor was growing, and indentured servants were becoming too expensive. So slavery had small beginnings, with some still being treated like indentured servants. Bacon’s Rebellion- Bacon was upset when he was denied a piece in the fur trade, so he and governor Berkely were not on good terms. When Bacon led an unauthorized