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Which is the most likely reason a person would become an indentured servant in the thirteen colonies
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Which is the most likely reason a person would become an indentured servant in the thirteen colonies

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The indentured servants were people who were too poor to pay for their passage to the new world (reason: poverty). They sign a contract that they would work for someone in return for the passage ticket
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