In Spite of the Revolutionary Rhetoric of Freedom, Indentured Servitude

question 31

True/False

In spite of the revolutionary rhetoric of freedom, indentured servitude was still widely practiced in the northern states by 1800.

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Definitions:

Poll Taxes

Fees levied as a precondition for voting, historically used in the United States to disenfranchise African American and poor white voters.

Explicitly Reserve

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Statesboro, Georgia

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Lynched

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