HIST205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Indentured Servant, Unfree Labour, Making Money
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When the war ended many loyalists were exiled or decided to leave the united. Indians were divided on who to side with. Indians backed either the americans or the british. Some tribes, like the iroquois, divided within on who to side with. Colonists continued to move westward and claim indian land. Wealthy people invested in land companies to buy up indian land. Would send out land surveyors to divide and sell the land. George washington and thomas jefferson were involved with land speculation. Many, like jefferson, saw the war as a way to gain more land for. Slavery, indentured servants, apprenticeship (somewhere in between, signed contract) By 1800, indentured servitude had almost ceased to exist in america. Nearly every founding father, north and south, owned slaves at one point in time. African slaves saw this to apply to themselves as well. African americans were speaking out: we deserve liberty. Revolution momentarily looked to threaten the institution of slavery.
