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Indentured Servitude in the Virginia Colony, 1607 to 1619 AD
OVERVIEW:

The term Indentured Servitude is considered an Institution and famously known to have been introduced and installed in the Thirteen Colonies .0  It is also known to have its roots from England as far back as the Elizabethan Period (last half of 1500s).0.a that evolved from the famous term and institution called Apprenticeship (aka: Internship) that continues to have its characteristics today throughout the world in the workplace.

According to documented history, the intended use of this institution in the Virginia Colony was not the first instance for its use in the British colonization of the Americas. That documented history has its place in 1585 AD in the lost Roanoke Colony; but in the Virginia Colony, it was not installed in the colony until 1620.1 when it was used on a practical basis upon the 1st wave of Ancient Planters/Settlers/Farmers during the 1st period of the Virgina Colony, 1607 to 1619 AD--over four-hundred years ago.

Before the First Landing in Virginia, April 1607, the Virginia Company--the administrator to colonize the Virginia Colony--was granted the legal status of a London trading company by James VI and I via his three Royal Decree Charters. However, besides its role as colonizing the Virginia Colony, it created investment options for its investors--the sale of common stocks that equated to Land Grant Uprights in the Virginia Colony. Further, it created membership groups called Adventurers.2: (1) one who would physically ventured tt the colony,.3 and (2) one who ineseted monies in England.

1. Galenson, p..

2. find source

3. describe the certificate of Adventurer

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B.Holding the same weight as creating investment options for its two membersip groups, the Virginia Company also created and defined structural social and economical groups.1.a which was appealing to the first wave of settlers/farmers/planters:.1.c and .8 (1) the Voluntary Servitude group,(12.wikilink) and (2) the Involuntary Servitude group(13.wikilink) that continue to hold the very same character definitions today; but probably more important, for this these group's merit, was their scrutiny with the enactment of the 13th Amendment (1865 AD)(14.wikilink) of the U.S. Constitution that reinforced its legal application for their use in the United States in that Slavery was legally abolished (which holds that if a person is held against their will that is slavery (involuntary servitude), but continue to be legal if a person is incarcerated)(15.wikilink), while voluntary servitude is legal.

Officers of the VCL expressed "Penal Colony".1.d

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C. Starvation for the settlers ensued the first 3 years of this period, 1607 to mid-1610 AD, and yet the remainder comprised the directive to install martial laws for the settlers/farmers/planters to build forts/towns.

C.1 The other action put in place by the VCL--for those wanting to participate in either being an investor from afar, or an Adventurer upon the colony--was an undercurrent of deception(16.wikilink) that pointed to false documented narratives (propaganda articles/broadsides)(17.wikipedia).1.e propagated by the VCL about 'The Institution', which proved not to be in place during this first period in the colony.

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What followed was the impact of The House of Burgesses in August 1619 AD; it was introduced to the colony for its 1st formal General Assembly that convened annually with 2 representatives (Burgesses) for voting within each plantation. It was the understanding that the colony would be governed by free laws (such as those used in England), i.e., the settlers having a hand in governing themselves.76

The year 1619 was a year before the beginning of the 1st legal period commence [1620-1642] of the 5-consecutive time-periods associated with the Legal System of Indentured Servitude. The 5-consecutive time-periods within the ‘New World’ evolved for almost 300 years in America, 1620 until 1917 AD,.77

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E. The Institution of Indentured Servitude began its formal installment for practice in the colony in 1620 AD.8.a that led to five consecutive periods for the legal institution for indentured servitude.6 This institution was launched from the actions of the "House of Burgesses" in 1619.

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0. Historians (and most dictionaries of today).2 typically define it to be: a contract (indenture) between a ... (Institution of Indentured Servitude in America (present day dictionary meaning):  The practice of transporting a European to the Americas during the British Colonial Period that began in 1607 AD with consideration to a 4 to 7-year term of labor/debt contract with the intent of paying for ones’ cost of transportation, and taking their skill set or receiving an apprenticeship with the possibility of receiving land.)

0.a Elizabethan article: https://www.bl.uk/shakespeare/articles/the-social-structure-in-elizabethan-england

1.a Ballagh

1.c Ballagh

1.d Doyle

1.e use Item #1 as the reference in book #3

8.  show chart I created

8.a Galenson

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DETAIL:

THE ORIGIN AND CONTINUED USE OF THE 'INSTITUTION OF INDENTURED SERVITUDE'

A.

In 1606 AD King James I:

I. Granted a 'letters patent' (to create a corporation) to form The Virginia Company of London (VCL), a joint stock company to establish profits for its investors, and

II. Sanctioned the VCL to colonize [by King James I].1 the Virginia Colony in 1607 AD, which was responsible to define what the term 'Institution of Indentured Servitude' meant and for whom its use. Within its sphere of definition lied, on one hand, the creation of two membership Adventure classes:.2.b

The (1) Adventurer as an Investor in England, and the (2) Adventurer who would traveled to the Virginia Colony as a settler/farmer/planter; and further, on the

another hand:

Defined categories for several economic and social groups for use within the institution for Indentured Servitudet will function for the first wave of settlers/farmers/planters in the Virginia Colony.2, respectively as the following:

I. Voluntary Servitude: “A free contract with the Virginia Company or with private persons for a specified term of service with consideration for transportation and maintenance during one’s servitude.”.16

This was a person who performed labor for a certain number of years, considered free people from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland who were called Farmers, but later called Ancient Farmers; they initially believed in this idea of voluntary servitude, as it was presented and promised to them, and thought it would best serve them because it was free transportation to what was considered the "New World"-— who were bondsmen borrowing against their future labor to repay their transportation costs; some would borrow from a friend or relative to pay the ships' captains for his transportation.32  and be part of the promised communal system of sharing natural resources and new markets these Planters were also promised land, housing, vegetable gardens and more through VCL pamphlets: Ballagh, p. 15.; and a category called:

II. Involuntary Servitude: “A legal authority that condemned a person to a term of servitude judged necessary for his reformation of prevention from an idle course of life, or as a reprieve from other punishment for the misdemeanors already committed” which was a person convicted of a crime--incarcerated within the prisons/correctional facilities in London, e.g. Newgate Prison or Clerkenwell, or an impoverished and unemployed.33 citizens of England, kidnapped men, woman, children (and convicts to serve out their prison terms);.34

Also mention above:

1. The attempt to use the 'Institution' in Roanoke

2. Apprenticeship/Internship

3. Involuntary Servitude still has the same meaning up to the 13th Amendment

Beyond these actions outlined, there was factorial statement that should be noted: since the officers of the VCL were involved in the pre-planning of this experiment, i.e., 'the Institution' was intented and understood to be a "likttle better than a 'Penal Colony'".3

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1.  Brown and/or Ballagh

2.  Ballagh

2.a Ballagh

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C.

DETAIL:

Starvation ensued and False Narrative promoted about 'The Institution'

The onslaught of starvation occupied the better part of the first 3 years in the colony because(..wikilink)...

Colonial Records of the VCL show that during the latter part of the proven starvation period, 1609 AD, advertisements (post propaganda articles/broadsides) promoting the benevolence of the Institution proved to be the ideal place to be as noted...but some how truth of the colony's condition reached the mainland of the of London, and as a deflection by the hands of the VCL, false narratives were promoted to deceive prospective artificers an noted(post meeting place). This documented proof justified the absolute/abject absence of the 'The Institution' in the colony.

The state of play was not only propagating deception by the VCL, but also it conducted lotteries to promote.1 what did not exist. These were coupled with the concurrent issuance of King James's 2nd Charter [in 1609] to the VCL for use martial law to discipline unruly settlers/planters/farmers in the colony to build forts/towns for the next generation of settlers.

Look up Captain John Smith's memoirs that later talked about what really happened in the colony.

1.land and garden(s)

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DETAIL

For the remainder of this first 12-year period, forts and towns were built with the use of martial laws by the VCL's commisioned governors(..wikilink) in London, who traveled to the colony.

In Auguest 1619 AD, the House of Burgesses was introduced in the colony that enacted the 1st General Assembly that convened annually with 2 representatives (Burgesses) for voting within each plantation. From this stretegic meeting, it was the understanding that the colony would be governed by free laws (such as those used in England), i.e., the settlers having a hand in governing themselves.76 Also attributed from this stretegic meeting launched the first legal period for 'The Institution' that commenced in 1620 AD.1 and what followed were the continual of four periods.

The five consecutive time-periods for the legal system for 'The Institution' comprise also 300 years (1620 until 1917 AD).77, and are as follows:

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1.Galenson, D GRainey (talk) 15:37, 29 October 2023 (UTC)