Indentured servitude was a form of cheap labor equal to that of slavery. In the 1800s and into the early 1900s, immigrants from the eastern world were hired into low paying jobs to pay their debt to the wealthy bby working on plantations in terrible working conditions. The people were to sign a contract that bound them to work for up to 15 hours a day for a number of years until their fee for traveling to the new world was paid. The majority of the people That were indentured servants were from India and other Eastern parts of Asia this was due to the spread of the Industrial Revolution brought about by Western Europe. Indentured servitude found it place in the New World due to the abolishment of slavery and they were in need of a new source of cheap labor. “ A clause was introduced at a public meeting setting forth in the Society of an ‘importation foreign labor’ … every succeeding year the demand for labor will increase in an almost geometrical ratio” (Doc 1,2) this means that the need for labor will only go up while the amount of work completed will increase exponentially and there will not be enough Indentured servants to complete the tasks that are needed to completed. …show more content…
forcing the immigrants to work harsh hours for scant pay Was a mere Step Up for the people who were in seek of a better life the exploitation of the chief labor though not seen as such was a form of slavery within itself indentured labourers were non-voluntary in immigrants meaning that they either signs to work for the people that they were going into the country to work for or they were not allowed to migrate there. there is not much difference between that and slavery regardless of the fact that they were