This concise, scholarly study focuses on the English origins of
white servitude and the roll of white indentured servants in the
development of the colony of Virginia. Special attention is also
paid to the legislation needed to manage this segment of the
population and the particulars of gaining one's freedom from such a
system. The establishment of white servitude in the Americas is
traced by Mr. Ballagh directly to the organization of the London
Company, the division of the Virginia Company of London, which
governed the Virginia colony. The first class of indented servants
entered into their contracts voluntarily for a definite term of
service in exchange for payment of their passage to the New World
and a land grant on completion of their contract. The majority of
indented servants were of this class. The second were undesirables,
persons whom legal authority condemned to a term of servitude as
punishment for a misdemeanor already committed or as a means of
preventing unemployment or idleness. This class was composed
primarily of paupers, debtors, orphans, and a large number of
political agitators who had committed no criminal acts, but were
unwelcome in England and sentenced to transportation. Men and women
of both classes flooded the colony in the 1600s and early 1700s and
had an enormous impact on both the population of the colony and its
laws.
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