That is because Algeria had millions of French citizens on its soil. They wanted to keep a close eye on these people and needed to fight nationalists who wanted to get Algerian independence while often harming French people, so they decided to keep Algeria a colony in order to monitor these people and protect them.
The main appeal for the indenture contract for someone looking for work was that it was short time period compared to the amount of money exchanged. When people started sailing over the "New World", young people who have enough money would ask people or specifically rich families to work for families for no pay.
Manorialism was "<span>a structure that defined a peasant’s relationship to the lord of the manor," since this was at the heard of the feudal system, which provided "protection" to the peasants and labor to the lords. </span>
