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AAbout a tenth of them
BAbout a third of them
CAbout half of them
DNearly all of them
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. About half of them
1. Few colonists could pay for their own passage and a start in the new land.
2. Many signed contracts binding them to labor for a contract-holder in exchange for passage and maintenance.
3. Half the settlers living in the colonies south of New England are estimated to have come under that system.
4. No social stigma attached to it, and every colony had leaders who were former indentured servants.
_Source: An Outline of American History (U.S. Information Agency, 1990, public domain), section FEW WERE ABLE TO PAY THEIR WAY_
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