Indentured Servitude: A Journey to the New World

Indentured Servitude: An indentured servant is a person who is under a contract to work for another person for a certain period of time. They are usually working with out pay, but are working for exchange of a free passage to a new country. In the seventeenth century most of the Caucasian workers coming from England were indentured servants. They were given a passage to America, food, and shelter in exchange for their work, for what was usually about four to five years. Roanoke island, was like a ghost town once found. There was no sign of struggle of war there but all they had found left behind was a note on a tree that read, Croatoan. The Croatoan were a small group of native americans that lived around North Carolina. A few years after

There were discoveries that were found to be “natural laws”, that regulated the workings of nature. Many people began to use this knowledge and celebrate human reasoning and argue rational thought, not just religious faith. The consequences of this was that this event played a large roll in the American and French revolutions. It caused people to question their faith in God, and men began to fear women becoming educated. Enlightenment ideals were greatly borrowed from Europe from philosophers like Locke and Descartes. They took these ideas and built them up to progress them. Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Benjamin Franklin helped progress them. The British government was removed, which lead to a different style of rule, like self-government and freedom of speech. Historically, the Enlightenment helped create an increase in concerns with political values, the government and education within the colonies. It brought ideals that helped improve the government and documents like The Constitution and The Declaration of The Rights of Man. In the end it helped create more of a division between The colonies of America and Britain and the change of Europe without the religious aspects. Rising the the religious tolerance with the help of individual freedoms after the decline of traditional