There are many questionable ways that slavery has come about in the United States. The most logical answer is that the idea of owning a person originated from that of indentured servitude. Indentured servants were people of a lower economic class who worked for a given amount of time for a person of a higher economic background for their freedom, land and supplies. Slavery is the same concept except people are not working for a given amount of time for freedom, land, and supplies. Slaves were working for the rest of their lives because they were property of another person.
Indentured servants were made up mostly of young white men who traded their time in prison or their poverty for time working as a servant for a person who had made an agreement to give them something else in return such as money, food, shelter or freedom. Indentured servants faced hard labor and when the time they had agreed upon working for was up they did not see much of an improvement in their life. Also many......

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Title: Indentured Servants
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