People today don't understand the lack of opportunities back in Europe, that drove these kinds of people to take such hardships to actually own their land. Native Americans, crossing the mountains, and clearly heavily forested land, but you could call it yours.
Don't forget the endless and idiotic wars fought for centuries. Compared to their ancestral homes, North America was peaceful for generations of peasants forced to be cannon fodder for kings.
I can understand completely when doing research like this how families like them come back to life in a way that some just don't understand.
People today don't understand the lack of opportunities back in Europe, that drove these kinds of people to take such hardships to actually own their land. Native Americans, crossing the mountains, and clearly heavily forested land, but you could call it yours.
Land was such a powerful pull. It was the promise of America in its purest form
Don't forget the endless and idiotic wars fought for centuries. Compared to their ancestral homes, North America was peaceful for generations of peasants forced to be cannon fodder for kings.
Indentured is the correct term.
Two thirds of all colonial settlers were indentured.