Craftsman in Apprenticing Source: Blacksmith, Interpreter at Jamestown recreation. Interpreter. Jamestown: n.p., 2015.

Paraphrase The education of any craftsman started at six or seven From ages twelve to sixteen you would leave the house of your parents and spend the next ten years with masters gave you a in depth education on how to run a business on your craft you learn all the aspects of your trade, no madder the race.The education of European blacksmiths and African ones were the same

My Ideas: This piece of evidence shows me that education was very important in colonial Williamsburg. I can tell education was important because you were taught from age six or seven, the same age we start out on today. Around the ages of twelve and sixteen you would leave your parents house and spend around ten years living with your master. Your master was expected to abide the law and make sure you can read and write. Then for the rest of your stay you spent countless hours mastering your craft and learning how to make a business out of it. The education and business of African and Europeans were the same; the only real difference was race and treatment. The main way colonial children were taught was apprenticeship.