5. Apprenticeships and Indentured Servants Existed Alongside The Enslaved
Apprenticeship featured three proposed main objectives: provide an easy and peaceful transition from slavery to freedom, guarantee the planters an adequate supply of labor during this period and to train the formally enslaved people on the responsibilities of freedom. The apprenticeships did not last long due to several protests taking place throughout the region. After slavery was abolished, other groups of people were brought over as indentured servants. Plantation owners looked to India, China, and the Middle East for laborers. Between 1842 and 1917, over 170,000 laborers were enticed into working on the plantations.