Indenture Servant Life

Indenture Servant Life

Introduction

I was never sure that the day will ever arrive or I will be alive to see the day when I would no longer be in bondage to a certain master and have to follow the instructions from morn to night. It is my luck or my struggle that finally, I was able to see the sunrise when I was free, free to go where I want and free to follow my will rather than some orders or commands. I had been an indentured servant for seven years, which seems like an eternity. There is a common perception that being an indentured servant is different from being a slave. But there is much similarity between both (PBS, 2011) as both have to submit their will into someone else's control and their lives never remain their own. Though I am not an indentured servant any more, but I cannot forget the years I spent in servitude and misery. I am also confused about what would I call my home as I have lost my family thousand miles away and so my home and there is no way back. I can only look ahead and find a place which I can call home and where I can find my future, a better one than my past.

Discussion

Life as an Indentured Servant

People wish to forget the difficult days of their lives so that they can spend their future peacefully and so as I wish. But past cannot be forgotten and it remains alive and returns time to time to remind you what were you and how much you have changed. My life as an indentured servant is also a great part of my life which I can never forget.

I had seen many indentured servants since my child hood as I belong to a race which is always considered to be inferior and others have rights to exploit them. Indentured servitude is the practice of entering into a kind of temporary slavery in exchange for economic benefits later. It was common in the American colonies and in 1607. Both men and women were offered to be servants in the New World to seek opportunities for financial improvement, although some were forced to serve to pay debts or as punishment. By late 1600, many servants were children of immigrants whose parents settlers bound to servitude in exchange for an education. Indentured servitude was different from slavery and the servant could reasonably expect the minimum rights while fulfilling his contract (Wareing, 1985).

I was also a child of an immigrant couple, who had many children and my parents, if I can call them parents, used to give them in under indentured servitude of Whites in order to run their living. I was also handed over or sold, to be more precisely to an English family when I was 7 years old. The family took me to some other city and this was the last time I saw my parents and siblings and left them ...