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An Apprentice's Indenture Contract (with text supports)
Many English settlers arrived in the colonies as indentured servants. Because poor men and women could not afford the cost of travel to North America, they bound themselves for four to seven years’ labor in return for passage across the [...]
Item Type: Government Document
Historical Era: Colonization and Settlement (1621-1750)
Analysis Worksheet: "An Apprentice's Indenture Contract"
Use this worksheet as a scaffold to help students analyze a colonial-era "An Apprentice's Indenture Contract."
Item Type: Worksheet
Comparing Slaves and Servants in Colonial New York
In this activity students read a list of laws regulating Africans and African Americans and a servant's indenture contract from colonial New York. Then students find evidence in the primary sources to support a series of statements about the [...]
Item Type: Teaching Activity
Historical Era: Colonization and Settlement (1621-1750)