Slave Colonies of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries...

Slave Colonies of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries In Barbados and Jamaica (the sugar islands) sugar was a major crop. The owners of these sugar plantations were badly in need of laborers to work for them year round, and because the natives died off so speedily, they needed to bring in someone to do the grueling tasks for them. They tried to use indentured servants, but this was extremely difficult because sugar is a year round, demanding sort of crop and nobody sought after work on those plantations. Any person who had any other kind of alternative would choose to go anywhere else. Eventually they started importing slaves because they were not only cheaper, but easier to replace when they died, as most people who came†¦show more content†¦In fact, it was the most common way for settlers to gain passage to America. Working in the Chesapeake wasnt the best situation a servant could have, but far better than working at the sugar plantations in the West Indies. Usually these servants, who were mostly able young men, would sign a 4 year contract to the ships captain. The captain would then go out and sell that contract. In England, indentured servants were given freedom dues when their servitude came to an end. Freedom dues were usually things like- money, clothing, land, cattle and other things that might get them started in their new life. In America the freedom dues given were significantly less because their passage to the new land had been paid for by their masters. They might have been given a very small amount of money or come clothes. Indentured servants were treated very poorly in the colonies until the arrival of the slaves. Overtime, it became very difficult to get indentured servants because the economic status in England became favorable and the men had no incentive to want to leave. So the need for laborers in the Chesapeake grew tremendously and by the 1650s the plantation owners were starting to switch to slavery. 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