Indentured Servants And Slaves

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would be required to work until they were 21.
When the boat reached America all servants were forced to stay onboard
until they could pay the toll or have a master pay the toll, then they
would serve that master for a set number of years (Gottlieb p 30). At this
time many families were broken up. No master wanted the sick, so the sick
would usually remain onboard until they died.
The slave's journey was equally as harsh, if not harsher, than that
of the indentured servant. The African slaves were first kidnapped,
separating them from their family, and brought aboard a slave vessel. The
infamous “middle passage” would then begin. This was the horrid passage
from Africa across the Atlantic to the Americas, in which many slaves were
driven to suicide. The slaves were chained into smaller spaces than that
of the indentured servants. They were beaten and often had to spend long
hours below the deck with hundreds of other slaves. “I received such a
salutation in my nostrils as I ...

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