Indentured servants became vital to the colonial economy. The timing of the Virginia colony was ideal. The Thirty Year's War had left Europe's economy depressed, and many skilled and unskilled ...

But that's not the way slavery was established in colonial America ... Black and white men who broke their servant contract were equally punished. All were indentured servants.

Both Dulany and Noblin came to Colonial America as indentured servants, part of a system for recruiting labor to America that flourished in the Mid-Atlantic colonies of Virginia, Maryland ...