What Is a Filehandle

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What is a filehandle?

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Colonial Governments

Administrative bodies established by colonial powers to oversee and manage colonies, often involving control over local resources, economy, and people.

Indentured Servants

Individuals who agreed to work for a set period without wages in exchange for passage to the New World.

Chesapeake Tobacco Planters

Landowners and farmers in the Chesapeake Bay region who cultivated tobacco as a cash crop during the colonial and early national periods of American history.

Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake

Refers to the region and period relating to the Chesapeake Bay in the 1600s marked by the establishment of English colonial societies based on tobacco farming and indentured servitude.