In addition to African and Indian slaves there was the class known as " redemptioners," or term slaves, consisting of indented servants, who bound themselves to their masters before leaving the mother country, and " free willers," who allowed themselves to be sold after reaching America, in order to reimburse the ship captain for the cost of their passage. [Please select]
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Most of the work on plantations was done by indented white servants, both convicts and redemptioners. [Please select]
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Meredith knows the pot-luck of redemptioners as well as I, and he can say nay if he chooses. [Please select]
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Labor was performed by slaves, by criminals sent over to the colonies and sold, and by "indented servants," or "redemptioners." [Please select]
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The majority were of the peasant and artisan class who usually came over as redemptioners. [Please select]
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Not only men, but also women and children, were sold in this way, and were known as "indented servants," or "redemptioners," because they redeemed their time of service with labor. [Please select]
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[Illustration: %An old Maryland manor house%] Labor on the plantations of Virginia, the two Carolinas, and Georgia was performed exclusively by negro slaves and redemptioners. [Please select]
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