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It allowed Poor people to get their way paid to come here in exchange for an agreed upon period of servitude. After which they were free to go.
Basically a limited form of slavery.
Is this homework?
What have you learned so far on your own? (indentured servitude or slavery?)
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Think its time you study... and do your english homework as well, your writing skills are horrible.
Describe how? By boat. Crowded as cattle, which they were - human cattle or chattel, whichever you prefer to view them.
Some had committed crimes where they were living and were sent by the courts to the colonies - such as America or Australia or islands controlled by the British government. Some of them were sent by their families, having received a payment for their child (not much) and the child was shipped off. There also was voluntary servitude, which must have been a bleak situation for the person.
A web search will pop up many informational sites. Here is a jump page for you to begin:
how indentured servitude came to America - Bing
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