Category: British Indentured Children
Categories: British Indentured Servitude | Great Britain | United Kingdom | British America
Indentured servitude or indentured labor is any system of unfree labor under which an employee (indenturee) is bound by a contract (indenture) to work for a particular employer, for a fixed period of time. The employer is often permitted to assign the labor of an indenturee to a third party. Indenturees usually enter into an indenture for a specific payment or other benefit, or to meet a legal obligation, such as debt bondage.
Until the late 18th century, indentured servitude was a very common practise in the the British colonies of the Americas. While it was often a way for poor people in Britain to emigrate to the colonies: they signed an indenture in return for a passage, it was also a system which was manipulated.
At times children were shipped by indenture, often ignorant of their choice, they were effectively "pressed" into indentured servitude and shipped to the Americas.
This category deals with children, often against their understanding or will, were forced into Indentured Servitude and either contracted in the nations of Great Britain or shipped to the British colonies.
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