| 31. | Over half of all European immigrants to Colonial America arrived as indentured servants.
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| 32. | Most worked as indentured servants and tenant farmers or sharecroppers for Sunni landowners.
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| 33. | There were also other indentured servants from England and Ireland.
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| 34. | By 1680, there were seventeen slaves for every indentured servant.
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| 35. | In many instances, they were more like indentured servants than slaves as commonly recognized.
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| 36. | The system makes residents indentured servants for the duration of their employment, Golub said.
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| 37. | In actuality, however, they were low-paid and degraded indentured servants.
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| 38. | It was common for indentured servants to earn their freedom.
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| 39. | Washington gradually replaced his own slaves with German indentured servants.
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| 40. | Some owned slaves or had indentured servants work for them.
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