🌍ap world history: modern review

Semicoerced labor migration

Written by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025
Verified for the 2027 exam
Verified for the 2027 examWritten by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025

Definition

Movement of people for labor under conditions of partial coercion or limited choice, such as indentured servitude and convict labor, where individuals had restricted agency.

AP course connection

Topic 6.6: 6.6 Causes of Migration from 1750 to 1900

Unit 6

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