Early Immigration

A few things in this chapter stood out to me the first of which was the sheer number of people who came to North America as Indentured Servants, not because they wanted to but because they were kidnapped or financially had no choice. Considering how they were treated I think it makes sense to say that Indentured servitude helped to set a foundation for how African slaves would later be treated. An example is how both were treated and thought of as someone else's property,and the lengths the owner would resort to in order to find them. I think it would be interesting to compare how many indentured servants went to each colony, I think it would be safe to assume that Virginia would have the highest amount because of their cash crop driven economy (this is the same reason that the South had a higher amount of slaves). It was also interesting to me how that would owner would go about finding their missing servants,putting missing ads in the paper that focus on the clothes and not much else today this would be the most impractical way to find a missing person.