Let me flip the coin over and ask the reverse question,....... if it's allowed.

[DebJ]

92. Actually man were kidnapped.

This is just the first link I found, not particularly informative other than the quote, but I read about this in many places while completing my degree to teach US History in high school.

"In addition, while many indentured servants came willingly to the Americas due to periods of low wages and poor living conditions in Western Europe, significant numbers were also kidnapped, or transported as convict labor."
http://ldhi.library.cofc.edu/exhibits/show/africanpassageslowcountryadapt/introductionatlanticworld/new-world-labor-systems--europ


Just trying to recall from the top of my head, ship captains could just have people ripped off the streets in London and elsewhere, transport them to North America, and get paid, make a profit. Something along those lines. Might not have been the ship captains, but there was a dire need for labor in the Americas, and people were kidnapping people off the streets and sending them over.