________________________ Apprentice – a child who learns a trade by living with the family of a skilled workers and working for several years as a servant and assistant. Apprentices were legally-bound to their masters. Printers Shipbuilders Tailors Can you think of more examples?

_______________________ Indentured Servant – a person who agrees to work for another person without pay for a certain length of time. People who wanted to move to the colonies but had no money. A planter or business owner paid for the trip, and the person agreed to work without pay from two to seven years. After this time passed, the person was free.

_______________________ Slavery – the practice of holding people against their will and making them carry out orders. Broker – paid to purchase slaves for planters. Auctions – public sale of enslaved Africans.

____________________ Africans who were house slaves were usually better off than field slaves. House slaves had better food, clothing, and living quarters. They also learned more about social customs and the English language.

_____________________ Field slaves lived under worse conditions; working from sun-up to sun-down. Field slaves received clothing and shoes once each year. They lived in one-room wooden huts with dirt floors with up to ten other people. Beds were usually made of straw and old rags.

____________________ In the Southern Colonies plantations developed! Plantations were huge farms that grew cash crops. _____________: You don’t eat it, you sell it for $$$! Can you think of an example of a Cash Crop?

___________vs. ___________ Gang System (Gang-gam Style) ;-) Task System Slaves were given a list of tasks that they needed to complete each day. Once they were finished, they were free to work in their own gardens and make their own goods. This allowed slaves to make money on the side. _________ FARMING! Slaves worked in the fields all day in large “gangs.” They had little extra time. They hand to tend their gardens and make their own goods late at night. This was a very hard way of life. ___________ Farming!

Quick Fire: How are these similar? Apprentice Indentured Servant Slave