Apprentice, Slave, or Indentured Servant

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Apprentice, Slave, or Indentured Servant

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• Worksheet

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Apprentices

• Apprentice a person who learns a trade by
  living with the family of a skilled worker and
  working for several years.
• Printers
• Shipbuilders
• Tailors

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Indentured Servants

• Indentured Servant a person who agrees to work
  for another person without pay for a certain
  length of time.
• People who wanted to move to the colonies but had
  no money.
• A planter or business owner paid for the trip,
  and the person agreed to work without pay from
  two to seven years.
• After this time passed, the person was free.

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Slavery

• Slavery the practice of holding people against
  their will and making them carry out orders.
• Broker paid to purchase slaves for planters.
• Auctions public sale of enslaved Africans.

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House Slaves

• Africans who were house slaves were usually
  better off than field slaves.
• House slaves had better food, clothing, and
  living quarters.
• They also learned more about social customs and
  the English language.

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Field Slaves

• Field slaves lived under worse conditions
  working from sun-up to sun-down.
• Field slaves received clothing and shoes once
  each year.
• They lived in one-room wooden huts with dirt
  floors with up to ten other people.
• Beds were usually made of straw and old rags.

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Whats the difference?

• Apprentice
• Indentured Servant
• Slave