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WHY DID THEY INTRODUCE INDENTURESHIP?

Indentureship was introduced as a means to address labor shortages in colonies, particularly in the Caribbean and Americas, after the abolition of slavery. It allowed for the recruitment of laborers from other regions under fixed contracts.Indentured laborers were promised passage, food, and shelter in exchange for their work for a specific period of time.


What is noun for indenture?

The word 'indenture' is a noun; a word for a contract by which one person is made to work for another for a stated period; a word for a thing.The noun forms of the verb to are indentureship and the gerund, indenturing.Legal terms that are nouns are indenturer and indenturee.


In what way was the indentureship of the East Indians similar to the African slaves?

Indentureship is not a direct equation to slavery. The brutality, magnitude and scale of slavery defies any such comparison.However, the system of indentureship bears the inheritance of slavery, in that its features and practice were a result of slavery -- the transportation of individuals valued only as bodily labour from one end of empire to another, where plantations benefitted from displacement and domination (e.g., where office of the Protector of Slaves morphed into Protector of Immigrants).Indentured labourers were not forced in chains to board boats, but neither was it completely voluntary. The ambiguities and complexities--e.g., colonial forms written in English, necessarily signed by thumbprint by those who did not understand the roman script, and therefore could not provide informed consent to travel to unknowable destinations-- makes a binary between forced and free untenable.In the wake of Emancipation, the sugar industry panicked. Planters tried to find a legal means to secure still dependent yet "free" laborers. For planters (colonial oppressors), this was not a choice between slave or free labour, but rather a double-bind between 'no labor' (i.e., understandably many of the former enslaved did not wish to work on plantations) or "bound coolie" labor. Milliroux (1877) characterized the choice facing planters in the post-Emancipation era thusly: "Some [planters] proposed the adoption of ploughs, excavators, and other instruments worked by steam power; others, the introduction of the largest possible number of machines, each with the power of two arms and of a good back-bone, called immigrants" (p.36). Clearly, ideas of subservience were not abolished with emancipation.


Why were Indentured servant important?

Actually, indentureship didn't work out very well and that is why slaves were needed. The people who came as indentured servants were white Englishmen who wanted to start a new life or get away from the enclosure movement in England. They signed a 7 year contract to work in exchange for their fare to the colonies, but very few finished the 7 years once they arrived. It was easy for them to disappear into the population. When the slaves arrived it was easy to see that they were a slave simply because they were black. Anyone who was black was a slave. It is the slaves who built this country. They stood ankle deep in mud planting rice in the Carolina's , they raised the children, built the roads, dug the canals, cleaned the houses, picked the cotton and worked at what they were told to do. They were property owned by another human and were treated as such.


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What is the European indentureship system?

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Is indentureship an abstract noun?

No, indentureship is a concrete noun. It refers to a specific legal contract or agreement, typically involving labor or employment conditions.


Why did European indentureship come to an end?

why did the indenturship came to an end


What is the European Indentureship?

it is the system that was introduced to the Caribbean to keep the going of slavery


What is the meaning of indenture?

The abstract noun for indenture is the word indenture or indentureship. Indenture is the agreement or the contract for the servitude and indentureship is the term or length of the servitude.


What is the date of the end of Indian indentureship in Trinidad?

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WHY DID THEY INTRODUCE INDENTURESHIP?

Indentureship was introduced as a means to address labor shortages in colonies, particularly in the Caribbean and Americas, after the abolition of slavery. It allowed for the recruitment of laborers from other regions under fixed contracts.Indentured laborers were promised passage, food, and shelter in exchange for their work for a specific period of time.


What was the indentureship system?

The indentureship system was a form of labor contract in which individuals contracted to work for a set number of years in exchange for passage to a colony and other benefits. It was commonly used in the 19th and early 20th centuries to bring laborers, often from India or China, to work on plantations in colonies like the Caribbean and Africa.


What is Caribbean stratification?

Caribbean stratification is the separation of the citizens into groups. The Caribbean has had a history of occupation, as a colonial property, via plantation and indentureship.


When did indentureship in the Caribbean begin and end?

It began in Guyana in 1838 and ended in 1917, in Trinidad and Tobago it began in 1845 and ended in 1917 as well...


What is the noun formation of indenture?

The word 'indenture' is a noun; a word for an agreement, contract, or document. Another noun form is 'indentureship'. The word 'indenture' is also a verb.


Why would a person volunteer to become an indentured servant?

If you're talking about colonial America, indentureship was given in exchange for passage to the colonies, which people expected to be a land that would make them rich.