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Reading 2.6
Slavery in the British Colonies
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Headright System | Gave land grants of 50 acres to settlers who paid the costs of an indentured servant to come to Virginia, which helped increase the colonial population. |
| Indentured Servants | Poor colonial settlers who agreed to have their transportation costs paid by someone else and in exchange work for them to pay off their debt (typically for seven years). |
| Middle Passage | Dangerous and deadly forced transport of captured and enslaved Africans to the Americas. |
| Slavery | Forced bondage and labor of people (typically Africans) who were legally classified as property, which afforded them no legal rights and often resulted in terrible and often deadly treatment. |
| Slave Laws | Laws passed by the colonies that regulated and defined slavery such as bondage for life and inheritance of slave status by children of slaves. |