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In colonial times why were parents willing to have their young sons become apprentices

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Answer: The ideal age for an apprenticeship might be considered fourteen, so that a full seven-year apprenticeship could be served by age twenty-one, but this was seldom the actual practice.

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The shorter apprenticeships common in the American colonies were achieved by starting at a later age

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