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because slaves were never freed :(
Some planters viewed indentured servants as a source of cheap labor to help grow crops and increase profits. They preferred indentured servants over slaves as they were a more temporary and less expensive labor force.
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Using the headright system, people in England 100s of acres of land in America by becoming indentured servants for a period of time, usually 7 years. These indentured servants were most often used by the plantation owners in Virginia initially.
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Virginia's Indentured Servants' Plot happened in 1661.
In 1652, the Catholic colony of Rhode Island made slavery illegal, and the colony of Virginia had fewer than 500 slaves -- only three percent of its almost 17,000 colonists. The tobacco planters of Virginia were still dependent primarily on indentured servants for labor, the indentured servants not requiring an initial investment as did the buying of slaves.
it formed by elite planters in virginia in the 17th century, they came up with a name for all the slaves,indentured servants, poor blacks and whies, freemen with no land, and debtors because they were lower than the lower class
In its initial years as a colony, Virginia had indentured servants. They relied on these indentured servants for most of the labor in the early years.
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declining death rates made slaves more profitable than indentured servants