Runaway Indentured Servants

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Objectives:
· Students should be able to identify examples of how slave/indentured servant owners perceived slaves and indentured servants differently.
· Students should be able to offer reasons why the owners held these different perceptions.
· Students should be able to consider the ramifications the owners' different perceptions might have made in such issues as slave and servant treatment and education.

Materials Needed:
1. Virginia Runaways Site (internet connection)
2. Student worksheet

Standards:

Virginia Standards of Learning

11.2 The student will compare the colonization of Virginia with that of other American colonies.

11.6 The student will analyze the causes and effects of major events of the Civil War and Reconstruction, including slavery;

11.17 The student will develop skills for historical analysis, including the ability to * analyze documents, records, and data (such as artifacts, diaries, letters, photographs, journals, newspapers, historical accounts, etc.);