Question

1 settlers, slaves, and servants
men and women with little active interest in w life in america were often induced to make the e to the new world by the skillful persuasion of noters. william penn, for example, publicized the portunities awaiting newcomers to the nsylvania colony. judges and prison authorities rred convicts a chance to migrate to colonies like orgia instead of serving prison sentences.
but few colonists could finance the cost of ssage for themselves and their families to make a rt in the new land. in some cases, ships captains ceived large rewards from the sale of service ntracts for poor migrants, called indentured rvants, and every method from extravagant omises to actual kidnapping was used to take on as any passengers as their vessels could hold.
in other cases, the expenses of ansportation and maintenance were paid by olonizing agencies like the virginia or massachusetts ay companies. in return, indentured servants greed to work for the agencies as contract laborers, usually for four to seven years. free at the end of this term, they would be given \freedom dues,\ sometimes including a small tract of land.
perhaps half the settlers living in the colonies south of new england came to america under this system. although most of them fulfilled their obligations faithfully, some ran away from their employers. nevertheless, many of them were eventually able to secure land and set up homesteads, either in the colonies in which they had originally settled or in neighboring ones. no social stigma was attached to a family that had its beginning in america under this semi - bondage. every colony had its share of leaders who were former indentured servants.
there was one very important exception to this pattern: african slaves. the first black africans were brought to virginia in 1619, just 12 years after the founding of jamestown. initially, many were regarded as indentured servants who could earn their freedom. by the 1660s, however, as the demand for plantation labor in the southern colonies grew, the institution of slavery began to harden around them, and africans were brought to america in shackles for a lifetime of involuntary servitude.
answer the following questions based on the reading and your knowledge of social studies.
1 had to work off the cost of their passage to the colonies before they were free
a. financiers
b. indentured servants
c. ship - captains
d. slaves
2 when were the first africans brought to the colonies?
3 involuntary servitude is better known as what?

Explanation:

1. Los sirvientes indentados se comprometían a trabajar para pagar el costo de su viaje a las colonias durante un período determinado, por lo que es la respuesta correcta.
2. Según el texto, los primeros africanos negros fueron traídos a Virginia en 1619.
3. La servidumbre involuntaria se conoce comúnmente como esclavitud.

Answer:

1. b. Indentured servants
2. 1619
3. Esclavitud