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...y stratified, repressive, unhealthy, impoverished society of England and the Old World generally. Evaluate the historical validity of this idea by focusing on Indentured Servants and discussing their experience in North America prior to 1865. Evaluate the historical validity of this idea by focusing on INDENTURED SERVANTS and dicussing their experiences in North America prior to 1865 For many early immigrants to America, the New World was full of the opportunities which had been promised to them. For this lucky minority deliverance from the rigidly stratified and socially backward societies of the Old World was a sweet medicine. It was this supposed land of prospect, abundance and wealth which was the lure for later Europeans, who in order to gain passage to this apparent utopia became indentured servants. Immigrant propaganda and recruiting agents fortified the unsuspecting Europeans in the belief that America would deliver all that it promised. Censors vetted adverse publicity whilst shipping advertisements bolstered the image of the colonies as an economic enterprise zone. However, behind this thin veneer lurked a more sinister reality. On signing away their freedom for between three to seven years, they had in effect sentenced themselves to a period of oppression, exploitation and a harshness in living standards often more extreme than those they had left ..... In mythology, immigrant propaganda, and in written history, America has often been portrayed as a land of promise, a fresh alternative to the crowded, rigidly stratified, repressive, unhealthy, impoverished society of England and the Old World generally. Evaluate the historical validity of this idea by focusing on Indentured Servants and discussing their experience in North America prior to 1865. Evaluate the historical validity of this idea by focusing on INDENTURED SERVANTS and dicussing their experiences in North America prior to 1865 For many early immigrants to America, the New World was full of the opportunities which had been promised to them. For this lucky minority deliverance from the rigidly stratified and socially backward societies of the Old World was a sweet medicine. It was this supposed land of prospect, abundance and wealth which was the lure for later Europeans, who in order to gain passage to th...