Indentured Servitude

why indentured servants moved to America

needed money and land, trying to escape poverty in England, support family

living conditions of indentured servants

ate gruel, unsanitary, horrible health, disease, no payment

indentured servants could not by good land in the central area

moved west into Shenandoah valley

plantations bought indentured servants land in Shenandoah Valley

moved west into blue ridge mountains

what indentured servants did for land in Blue Ridge mountains

cleared land and fought natives

indentured servants fought and protected their land without help from colony

indentured servants see no reason to pay taxes

what indentured servants expected to see when they paid taxes

protection from colonies

Lord Berkeley does not see indentured servants in Blue Ridge mountains economically worth it to protect

indentured servants are not voters because they do not own the land, they are to far away to worry about

Bacon and indentured servants complain about taxes with no protection (no taxation without representation)

Bacon rallies people and leads a revolution on Jamestown and burned the city

message Bacon's rebellion sent

wanted to show colonists they are still there and that they wanted representation

Bacon dies

rebellion fails and rich realize that if they get rid of indentured servitude and give them representation, they can replace them with slave labor

rich farmers replace indentured servants with slaves

do not have to pay slaves and can control them (not protected by law)

indentured servants have no jobs

will never be hired by plantation owners

plantation owners by land from bankrupt farmers but does not hire them

plantation owners have no need for indentured servants