Indentured servitude
a. evolved out of the serfdom of the Middle Ages.
b. was an adaptation of the institution of apprenticeship.
c. replaced slavery in the colonies.
d. failed as a system of labor.
e. was never really given a change in the English colonies.
ANS: B
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