HIST1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Indentured Servant, Anabaptism, Planation Surface
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Goods circulating around the world at a greater pace. Makes the haves richer and the have not"s poorer. Slavery and the trade around the world heavily increased. All women and children were subsumed into the personage of the male authority figure in the household. Women and children have no say in what happens to them: what they do for a living, if they get married, beaten/raped. Anabaptists and quakers: people have to leave because of their religion because of the persecution and they become religious refugees. Not a slave but her range of motion is still tightly controlled. She can work for someone else but you need a reference. You have more freedom than slaves but you are still under control. Many women servants were sexual pray of their owners: experience may have been horrific. Life may have been rosy and wonderful compared to others: dutch east india company have east indian servant.
