What is an indentured servant

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Assignment:

Answer the following questions based on Letter from An Indenture Servant(1623) Letter From an Indentured Servant 1623.

A) What is an indentured servant? How is the status of an indentured servant different from that of a slave? What are the similarities?

B) Where is this servant from? Where is he fulfilling his service in the colonies? What kind of work did this servant perform?

C) What sense of community did the servant note in the colony?

D) What were his major complaints?

E) What did he want from his parents?

F) Given what you have studied so far in this class, were the opportunities available to ordinary persons in the New World commensurate with the risks involved?

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