Indentured Servants Were Effective But. Many saw africans’ black skin as a sign of inferiority. Indentured servants could not marry without the permission of their master, were sometimes subject to physical punishment and did not receive legal favor from the courts.
Many virginia planters got land and labor due to their purchasing of indentured servants' contracts. How were indentured servants and african american slaves different? Runaway slaves and indentured servants were a persistent problem for landowners in colonial virginia.they fled from abusive masters, to take a break from work, or in search of family members from whom they had been separated.
They were under the control of courts and were bound out to work as an apprentice until a certain age.
Corporal punishment of indentured servants was expected for rule infractions but some servants were beaten so severely they later died. For the most part indentured servants were mainly men, as english women were not expected to be capable of doing farm work. Remarkably, until 1ate 17th century, chesapeake plantations were served by indentured servitude of servants who escaped from england to new england due to poverty resulting from the depressed economy. Gayle king interviews ralph northam.
