Colonial Social Groups

Were caretakers and homemakers

• Large Landowners

• Farmers (small)

• Enslaved African Americans

• Colonial Women

Were freed at the end of their contract

• Indentured Servants

• Colonial Women

• Free African Americans

• Artisans

Relied on indentured servants and slaves for labor

• Farmers (small)

• Large Landowners

• Artisans

• Colonial Women

Worked as craftsmen in towns and on plantations

• Free African Americans

• Enslaved African Americans

• Artisans

• Indentured Servants

Few worked outside the home

• Artisans

• Colonial Women

• Farmers (small)

• Free African Americans

Could earn money, but not vote

• Large Landowners

• Farmers (small)

• Artisans

• Free African Americans

Worked as an apprentice

• Enslaved African Americans

• Indentured Servants

• Artisans

• Farmers (small)

Grew cash crops in the South

• Artisans

• Large Landowners

• Colonial Women

• Free African Americans

Agreed to work without pay for a person who paid their passage to America

• Indentured Servants

• Enslaved African Americans

• Free African Americans

• Farmers (small)

Were NOT slaves, but were owned

• Free African Americans

• Colonial Women

• Enslaved African Americans

• Indentured Servants