Due at 7:00 PM please answer quickly

1) What is the definition of a convict servant?

2) What were the legal steps to a person becoming a convict servant and serving out his or her sentence?

3) What evidence is there that convict servants were treated worse than slaves? Is this evidence convincing?

4) What role did convict servants eventually play in the development of the 13 American colonies and eventually the United States?

5) Why do you think convict servants are not a well-known part of American colonial history?

6) How would you feel if you found out that an ancestor of yours had been a convict servant in the colonies?

7) How did Benjamin Franklin feel about England sending convicts to America?