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What were the Benefits and drawbacks of using indentured servants for labor in Virginia?
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In your judgment what were the benefits and drawbacks of using indentured servants for labor in Virginia?
Benefits of using indentured servants in Virginia included access to cheap labor for tobacco cultivation and infrastructure development. Drawbacks included the mistreatment and exploitation of indentured servants, whose contracts were often extended unfairly, and the high mortality rate due to poor living and working conditions.
When did Virginia's Indentured Servants' Plot happen?
Virginia's Indentured Servants' Plot happened in 1661.
Who did Virginia rely on its labor in its initial years as a colony?
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.
Did the Virginia colony have indentured servants?
Absolutely, hordes of them.
Why did indentured servants become important to the early virginia economy and society?
Because they were indentured.
Who replaced the first indentured servants on the plantations of Virginia?
Slaves
What best describes most immigrants to Virginia?
indentured servants
What did indentured servants go to virginia for?
well they were servants so the went to va to work for freedom
Use indentured servant in a sentence?
In the 1800's, there were over 10,000 Indentured Servants in Jamestown, Virginia.
Most white workers in colonial Virginia in 1625 were?
Indentured servants.
Was using indentured servants were harmful or helpful to the Virginia colony?
I think it was harmful because the servants were treated bad
What group comprised the main labor in Virginia in the 1600's?
Indentured servants.
