Indentured Servants Were Effective But . I think this shows that society thought women that were not slaves were delicate and should not be performing hard labor. Most of the servants were young and poor.
Agents or ships' captains recruited emigrants in england to be indentured servants in the colonies. Most indentured servants were in their late teens or early twenties when they arrived in the chesapeake. At the end of their period of indenture, they would be restored to their former status as.
However, both african men and women were capable of doing farm work and even the children started to do it at a young age.
However, both african men and women were capable of doing farm work and even the children started to do it at a young age. Colonial newspapers were among the most effective ways to recruit for, and advertise the sale of, indentures on both sides of the atlantic. How were indentured servants and african american slaves different? Remarkably, until 1ate 17th century, chesapeake plantations were served by indentured servitude of servants who escaped from england to new england due to poverty resulting from the depressed economy.