Abolishment Of Slavery Dbq Essay

Slavery was one of the biggest issues that the world had ever seen. Starting in the early parts of history, slavery had always been a major aspect to life and to the world. WIth the addition to indentured servitude in the nineteenth century and twentieth century, there was a lot of change. Although slavery and indentured servitude are two different concepts, they both kind of are used for the same thing, and both caused different causes and effects the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The abolishment of slavery was one of the main causes for the restoration of indentured slavery. Indentured servitude was like a better version of slavery, but there was still problems to it. With the industrial revolution and many agricultural needs that Latin America had people were needed in certain places in order to do work. Governments made contracts with the workers in order for them to work. The contracts had information such as the length of their contract and the type of payments they would receive(Doc. 7). People would come from all over the world to get

jobs and to try to live a better life.
Indentured slavery was suppose to be a choice and it was meant to be safe and some sort of good quality, but there was bad conditions, and a poor quality of life.

It affected the society in a way that it was like slavery was once again upon them. In Document 8, Ramana, a worker states, “I complain that I am not allowed proper time to eat my meals during the day. I have to commence work at about 5:30 in the morning and finish off at about 8:30 p.m. daily. I work on Sundays up to 2 o'clock. I am overworked and the wages paid me is not sufficient. Whenever I stop away for a day in the month, it is deducted from my pay, and I am told by my master that I will have to make up these days at the expiration of my indenture”(Doc. 8). This shows how bad the workers were treated. It affected a lot of people because the civilians mainly the lower class thought that slavery was over and with acts like this one they weren't so

sure.
With many countries going in a downfall, the people form the countries came to countries with jobs available such as north America and the Caribbean. People decided to immigrate to the places because of the so call contracts that were given to them. Many Asians, Europeans, etc, immigrated to countries such as Mauritius, Trinidad, British Guiana, etc. Factors such as China and Japan fighting over Korea drove the people out of the certain places. About 71% of immigrants in Mauritius in 1920-1921 were Asian indians, and about 33% of immigrants were Asian indians in Trinidad as well(Doc. 9). This shows how the people immigrated to places to work and to get away from their own country.
Although slavery and indentured servitude are two different concepts, they both kind of are used for the same thing, and both caused different causes and effects the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Many changes such as immigration and labor systems were caused by influential factors such as indentured servitude in the 19th and 20th century. Now due influential people and to laws there is now better working conditions and full rights that everyone has, working isn’t bad compared to when there was slavery and indentured servitude.