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Household Servants were very common.

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Finally being a servant got you to America, if you weren't an Indentured Servant you would have never been able to go to America.

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Being an Indentured Servant was also good because after You've served your time working for someone, you can be set free, to live your life in America.

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Comparing and Contrasting Indentured Servants and Slaves in early colonial period of US History

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Neutral

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Negatives

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Positives

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Although Indentured Servants did not live the best lifestyle possible there were many positives to being one. Being a servant gave you a home, food, and cloths in order to live.

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While working for their master's indentured servants were not allowed to marry or have children. They were also not allowed to leave the plantation without permission or keep money for personal use.

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As labor demands grew landowners began to feel threatened by newly freed servants looking for land.

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Sometimes the owners of the indentured servants cheated or lied to keep the servants.

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Indentured Servants are people who can't pay their way to America so they make a deal with a wealthy person. The deal is that if the servant works for the wealthy person for a certain amount of time the servant will be set free.