Answer:
Indentured servants usually worked four to seven years in exchange for passage, room, board, lodging and freedom dues. While the life of an indentured servant was harsh and restrictive, it was not slavery. The idea of indentured servitude was born of a need for cheap labor.
Explanation:
By the beginning of the 1600's. Europe's economy was very depressed, after a thirty years war. Many skilled and unskilled laborers were unemployed. A new life in the New World was offered to them as a hope to their current situation.
