Indentured workers were always available, and indenture practice never halted, the practice only diminished when slavery became available and more profitable to business. Indenture work was a solution established to bring labors to British colonies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Although initially all the servants came from England, throughout the colonial period migrants from other countries joined the flow of servants to British America; Scottish, Irish, and German immigrants arrived in the colonies under indenture especially in the eighteenth century. The time of service, loan for transportation, and wage were negotiated by English merchants according to the length of the contract, the servant’s skills, age, level of literacy,
