German immigration to the United States and their contribution to this country

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Eltis notes that since the voyage was long, difficult, and expensive, “indentured servitude […] allowed emigrants in effect to charge the price of the transatlantic fare until after their arrival in America.”(2002) At the time, it was pretty common that immigrant groups were bound to their ethnic lines; for example, German immigrants were bound mostly to German-American masters...
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In effect, German colonists financed the surge of German immigration –families and single young men, “Merchant with interests in developing the shipping of immigrants across the Atlantic into profitable business introduced the innovative adaptation of indentured servitude –a strategy which depended in large part on the willingness of German settlers to invest in the future labor of kin and former neighbors...
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