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Indentured Servitude: Why Sell Yourself into Bondage? | Lesson Demo

Updated: February 16 2011,
Author: barrel jason
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Choice, Credit, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Incentive
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Included in this interactive are two videos on choices, which are based on one of the lessons from the Focus: Understanding Economics in U.S. History publication. Lesson 5: Indentured Servitude: Why Sell Yourself into Bondage? provides students with case studies of indentured servitude so they can identify costs and benefits for people of limited means. The introduction video is of an educator describing how he teaches the lesson in his classroom. The classroom video is a demonstration of the lesson being taught to students.

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