Besides race how were indentured servants and slaves different?

Question

i have been looking into this subject and have found some differences but what were the differences between them when it came to treatment and their forms of resistance?and if you have any other information about their differences i would really appreciate it.please help.

Answer 1

An indentured servant would sign a contract in which they would choose to work for someone.  The contract was temporary, and once it was complete they were free to go.  Slavery was permanent and involuntary.  There was no choice and no end in sight for those who were forced into such a predicament.

Answer 2

A slave was property for life, or until they were sold, an indentured servant was a deal involving a contract that a person from Europe, more often than not a man, with a needed skill, would work for free given only food and lodging until their contract expired.  Yeah, you COULD argue that it was a form of slavery but it wasn't, because so long as the indentured servant did not breach the contract (which might give cause to his boss to extend it) the moment the contract expired he did not have to work for whoever it was he was working for anymore and he was free to go anywhere he pleased.  Because the majority of indentured servants all had a trade or skill, once the terms of their contract was over they often established their own businesses.

Answer 3

Capital.

Answer 4

An indentured servant CHOOSES to work for someone for a certain number of years, in exchange for a piece of land or passage to the New World.

They merely work for them until they have paid off their debt. They were often treated like members of the family, and learned their masters trade.

A slave has NO CHOICE in the matter and is a slave for life, to be bought and sold whenever their master wants. They are most likely born into slavery.

Answer 5

Well, Indentured servants were for the most part white so you couldn't tell them apart from the other white people. If they ran away they blended in. They were able to marry into families and eventually became active in getting rights for immigrants from Europe.

The church and government of Colonial America and England colluded to introduce into America a slave class. This was already done by the Spanish in South America to the natives there so the model and forms of oppression were already tried and true; can't wear the whites cloths, intermarry, and whatever else, plus they were darker skinned and it was easy to keep track if anyone escaped.

The church tied the color of skin, darker, into the original sin which had already proven to be a great way to prove some kinds of people were born inferior and there was nothing you could do about it.... theres more but I have to eat dinner now.

If you"r taking a class, your instructor will want concise examples. I'm sure she won't mind if you ask her for more direction...

Answer 6

Race had nothing to do with it.... Slaves were for life bought and sold.. indentured servants served for payment to someone ...ie to go to a new country. Once they paid the debt they were free.

Answer 7

Indentured servants,especially the Irish,Welsh,and Scots were sent to America to pay family debts they owed to the British tax collectors.

African American slaves weren't paid anything at all. They could work from sun up to sundown every single day of the week. If they died on the job,the task master simply assigned someone else to that position to make sure the job got done.

Answer 8

Race doesn't have anything to do with being an indentured servant.  An indentured servant is someone would work for someone so that they would pay for passage to America, after their time was up they could leave.  it was common for the servant to work for around seven years, however the people who owned the servants would often try to add on time for little things. For the time the servant worked they were basically the bosses slave but conditions in comparison to that of actually slavery were not as bad.