"And what is a "true" indentured servant?" There is no true indentured servant. However, surely there was a social contexts which changed in many ways over a century i.e. a veritable mass migration of impoverished indentured laborers in the 1700s in contrast to a modest number of 17th century servants and apprentices, like Readway and Wright, in the direct employ of prosperous business men with a sense of obligation and responsibility to their charges. BC