TERM: Indentured Servant (scroll down for definition)

 

 

 

 

Definition for: Indentured Servant

These were “adventurers” who travelled to the New World and settled mainly in Maryland and Virginia to work tobacco fields. They generally labored for 7 years in exchange for the voyage over. They were given freedom dues (tools, land, etc) after their time was served.

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