From Indentured Servitude to Slavery

Starting from scratch was no easy task for the adventure-seeking puritans that escaped to the new world looking for religious freedom and economic pursuits. Much manual labor needed to be preformed to sustain or even produce a surplus of various crops. The passage over to the new world was expensive and lot all people in England could afford the passage. People sought out individuals that were willing to go and help sustain and enhance colonial life but didn't have the funds for the passage. Indentured servants and eventually slaves became the primary source of labor in the colonial er…