THE DUTCH, SPANISH,

& INDENTURED
SERVANTS
A Presentation by Benjamin Fraser, Novia
March, Melissa Singh, Keneisha Taylor, and
Malyck R. Malcolm

THE DUTCH

THE DUTCH

THEIR SEDIMENTATION

Settlement Patterns of the Dutch:

1.

Coastlands of Guiana

2.

Aruba, Curacao, Bonaire (The ABC

Islands)

3.

St. Maarten

4.

Saba

5.

St. Eustatius

THE DUTCH

REASONS FOR COMING TO THE NEW WORLD

1.To create

their own empire in the

Caribbean
2.They sought to attack Spain's
source of wealth
3.In search for salt
4.For trading and trade relations

THE DUTCH

EVIDENCE OF THEIR COMING TO NEW WORLD

1.Some

territories speak Dutch

presently in the Caribbean
2.Had their own countries
colonized in the Caribbean

THE DUTCH

ROUTE TAKEN TO THE NEW WORLD

Travelled from Netherlands across

Atlantic ocean.

THE SPANISH

ROUTE TAKEN TO THE NEW WORLD

The Spanish journeyed west of Spain

across the Atlantic Ocean to make it to
the New World. Christopher Columbus
was noted as specifically travelling with
three ships: the Nina, Pinta, and Santa
Maria.

THE SPANISH

REASONS FOR COMING TO THE NEW WORLD

1. Columbus

wanted to find a shorter route to

china and India to trade gold and spices

2. Other

Spaniards wanted to find fortunes,

and Spain wanted to create an empire

THE SPANISH

EVIDENCE OF THEIR COMING TO NEW

WORLD
According

to the Daily Mail reported November 26,

2008 a wreck of a Spanish ship, believed to be the
remains of the Trouradore by marine
archaeologists, and carried African slaves, was
found off the coast of Turks and Caicos; they were
one of the first countries to begin the slave trade

territories speak Spanish in the Caribbean

presently

INDENTURED SERVANTS
Indentured servants were people who worked without pay.
Europeans who owned money they could not pay back were
often sent to prison. The servants signed contracts that
required them to work from three to seven years in exchange
for paying off their debts. The services of these immigrants
were sold to the highest bidders after their arrival in the
colonies. Their life on the Caribbean plantations was one of
hard, physical labor and abusive conditions. At the end of their
period of indenture the former servants were absorbed into
the general population.

INDENTURED SERVANTS
Indentured

servants were people who worked

without pay. These servants signed contracts
requiring them to work from three to seven years in
exchange for paying off their debts. The services of
these immigrants were sold to the highest bidder
after their arrival in the colonies. Their life on the
Caribbean plantations was one of hard, physical
labor and abusive conditions. At the end of their
period of indenture the former servants were
absorbed into the general population.

INDENTURED SERVANTS
Coming

West from various mother countries,

curiosity about the New World, the desire for a
better life, working in aid of debt settlement, and
being taken by force were all contributing factors
that landed indentured servants in the New World.
Naturally, these servants often followed a
settlement pattern that was dictated by whichever
country they took up work in. Aside from historical
records that proved that indentured servants were
in fact present in the New World as field workers,
craftsmen assistants, and household workers,
there isnt much else to propose their stay.