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*grins*
The majority of the early English settlers to America were people who'd migrated from rural or depressed areas of the country to London (many from Wales actually) in hopes of finding work/wealth/a future and ended up with some rather stark survival choices to make. Many of those transported were such people who'd turned to petty crime or prostitution. Many of those who didn't end up being transported for crimes, ended up selling themselves into indentured servitude in order to try their luck in the New World, having realised rather sharply, that London was not a good place to be if you weren't part of an 'honourable' i.e. apprenticed trade.
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