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Three Colonial Regions, Three Economies

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Students sort evidence from the lesson and colonial law to tell indentured servitude apart from chattel slavery, a fixed-term contract against a lifelong, race-based system, then read three passages from the 1775 book American Husbandry and name what its commercial lens shows and hides.

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