HIST318 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Unfree Labour, Roanoke Colony, Kurt Lewin
14 Oct 2018
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A new boatload of colonists and supplies sank off the coast of bermuda on its way to help the hungry settlement: disease and hunger ravaged jamestown. Two desperate colonists were tied to posts and left to starve as punishment for raiding the colonies" stores. John smith: he imposed strict discipline on the colonists. "work or starve" was his motto, and each colonist was required to spend four hours per day farming: smith was a leader of the virginia colony based at jamestown between. September 1608 and august 1609, and led an exploration along the rivers of. Virginia and the chesapeake bay, during which he became the first english explorer to map the chesapeake bay area. It was the mainstay of the farming plantations for generations. Indentured servants is an employee (indenturee) within a system of unfree labor who is bound by a signed or forced contract (indenture) to work for a employer for a fixed time.
