Question

Once indentured servants entered into their contract, their rights became severely limited. What were the conditions that these servants faced during their indenture?

Answer 1

The answer is stated below.

Step-by-step explanation:

While the institution of slavery was present in the seventeenth century there was a growing need for labor at the British plantations of indigo, rice, and tobacco. Indentured servants were those people who signed a contract with the employer in exchange for transportation to these plantations, food, clothing, and shelter. They lived in miserable conditions encountered with new diseases of foreign land, work in harsh condition, long working hours and they were mostly at the mercy of their money-minded masters.