Colonial Period Question
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Which of the following was not a significant feature of indentured servitude in seventeenth-century Virginia?
- Indentured servants never comprised more than a small percentage of Virginians, the great majority of whom arrived either as free settlers or slaves.
- Unlike slaves, indentured servants were held in bondage only for a limited pe-riod of time.
- Like slaves, indentured servants could be bought and sold, beaten, and denied permission to marry by their masters.
- Although servants could anticipate some kind of "freedom dues" (often a piece of land) upon completion of their indenture, many died before their terms expired.