Indentured Servants in Colonial Virginia

The servant of the contract is a man and woman (also called a contract or contract) signing the contract, agreeing to work for a certain number of years in exchange for shipping to Virginia state, having food, clothes and evacuation centers upon arrival I will. . Adults usually take 4 to 7 years, children take longer than usual, mostly working in colonial tobacco fields. In England, with a long history, in the majority of the seventeenth century contract enslavement has become a major means for Virginia producers to meet almost unlimited labor needs. Originally, a company in Virginia in London paid for transportation civil servants across the Atlantic Ocean, but in a system built in 1618, we invited producers and merchants to pay the cost of the promise of the land. As a result, the servant is poured into the colony, where they are brought to a deadly disease, most new immigrants lose their lives, and sometimes cruel masters are left with regrettable harsh conditions It was. The General Assembly passed the contract provisions and the Act on Employee Actions and Treatment. In addition to benefiting owners of long-term contracts, these laws restrict the rights of servants, while still allowing the servants to file complaints in court. By the end of the seventeenth century the number of new servants in Virginia gradually declined and colonial labor demand was largely supported by slave Africans. More

In 1654, servant of a black colon in the Virginia colony John Casa became the first person declared as a slave in a civil case. He once told the policeman that its owner Anthony Johnson himself was a free black man who had already allowed him to surpass his contract. Neighbor 's Robert Parker told Johnson that he will testify in the court unless Kasor is released. According to local law, Johnson is in danger of losing some positive land due to breach of contract terms. Under pressure, Johnson released Cassall. Carol signed a seven-year contract with Parker. Feeling deceived, Johnson sued Parker for regaining Gasol. Northampton County Court in Virginia ruled Johnson and Parker announced that he illegally detained Gasol from a legal owner who legally controlled his "legal life".

Virginia's slavery dates back to 1619, after Virginia was founded, the company in Virginia became a British colony. The company established a direct system to encourage colonial contractors to transport colonial workers to us; they received a certain amount of land for the people they paid for Virginia. Africans were first brought to Virginia in 1619, brought by British individuals from the Spanish slave ships they intercepted. Several laws on slavery in Africa passed in the 17th century and were incorporated into Virginia 's first slavery law in 1705. One of the laws that affected slavery was in 1662, which stated that children born in the colony would take their social position regardless of their father. This is in sharp contrast to the customary law of the UK at the time, bringing the generation of enslaved people including mixed-rich children and adults, some of whom are white.