Which of the Following Statements About Indentured Servants in the First

question 37

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about indentured servants in the first half of the seventeenth-century Chesapeake colonies is LEAST accurate?

• A)Most indentured servants were in their late teens or early twenties when they arrived in the Chesapeake.
• B)Many indentured servants did not live long enough to earn their freedom.
• C)Indentured servants who earned their freedom expected to receive a parcel of land of their own.
• D)Despite its harsh features,the legal system of white servitude was,from the beginning,sharply distinguished from the legal system of black servitude.

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