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Pros And Cons Of Indentured Servants
a) INDENTURED SERVANTS
Landless Europeans agreed to work under a form of contract labor for several years to pay off travel costs. During that time (indentured period) they received no compensation but food, room, and clothing were provided. The Masters could administer punishment and otherwise abuse to them, similar to the owners’ treatment of their slaves. The servants lack full political and civil rights. The indenture servant can sue when planters failed to fulfill their parts of the bargain. Servants who completed their years of labor became free and most indentured servants became landowners.

b) SLAVES
The Slaves on the other hand was forced to work, threatened of physical punishment, and little freedom. Slaves were bought and sold like
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7) ʺThe blood of so many hundred thousand souls of Protestants and Papists, spilled in the wars of present and former ages, for their respective consciences, is not required nor accepted by
Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace. . .An enforced uniformity of religion throughout a nation. .
.denies the principles of Christianity. . . .ʺ The author of these statements was D) Roger Williams. 8) She was banished from Massachusetts for claiming that she regularly received divine insights. E) Anne Hutchinson 9) ʺOur first concern was to keep up and maintain our religious worship. . . And, . . .we have nothing but love and good will in our hearts, one to another. . . And as our worthy Proprietor treated the Indians with extraordinary humanity, they became very civil and loving to us. . .ʺ
The colony described above was E) Pennsylvania 10) According to your text, the cultural chasm between Europeans and Indians was most evident in the area of

D) warfare because Europeans fought in large groups to destroy their enemies, whereas
Indians fought more often to display their courage or avenge a


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