Do you know who Morgan Morgan was?
He is considered the 1st European settler of West Virginia! A native of Wales (part of England) he moved to the frontier with his wife and 5 children from Delaware.
We also had a fun role-play discussion of indentured servitude in the New World. While it surely wasn't fun to sell yourself into "slavery" for 7 years - that is how many of our ancestors were able to pay for their passage to the colonies.
Want to learn more about indentured servants in Appalachia? Click on the link below!
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/faculty_archives/appalachian_women/indentur.htm
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