Which of the following statements about indentured servants in the first half of the seventeenth-century Chesapeake colonies is LEAST accurate?
A) Most indentured servants were in their late teens or early twenties when they arrived in the Chesapeake.
B) Many indentured servants did not live long enough to earn their freedom.
C) Indentured servants who earned their freedom expected to receive a parcel of land of their own.
D) Despite its harsh features,the legal system of white servitude was,from the beginning,sharply distinguished from the legal system of black servitude.
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