For those who came here in the early 1600's and after, life was indeed hard. Not just on indentured servants. The majority of the settlers died in their first year here. This boy whoever he was, had TB he was not going to live! Everybody had a hard life at that time, and how can that time be equated to just indentured servants that had a hard time and were mistreated.
Often there were no options for these souls, indentured or not! He was most certainly an orhan for whom no one cared. He needed medicine that was not available. He undoubtedly, like many of his contemporaries, had a poor diet. He never would have gotten any taller. He was one of lifes tragedies but in history there are many, as now in South Africa. Where their lives are a living hell. How many years after this boys sad life?
All hunger and disease and suffering, in EVERY century, are the result of Oppression. Didn't you go to government schools and learn any history?