SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE SOUTHERN COLONIES SETTLEMENT AND GROWTH
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Demand of labor outpaced the supply of people willing to work as indentured servants.
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The cost of African slaves fell.
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High death rates of indentured servants led to labor shortages.
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The cost of indentured servants rose sharply.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Which of the following was a factor in the practices of indentured servitude and slavery in the southern colonies? Cash crops such as tobacco and sugar required many workers.
Detailed explanation-2: -Labor substitutions may have led employers away from indentured servants and towards slaves or paid employees. In many places, African slaves became cheaper for unskilled and then eventually skilled labor, and most farmhand positions previously filled by indentured servants were ultimately filled by slaves.
Detailed explanation-3: -Many landowners also felt threatened by newly freed servants demand for land. The colonial elite realized the problems of indentured servitude. Landowners turned to African slaves as a more profitable and ever-renewable source of labor and the shift from indentured servants to racial slavery had begun.
Detailed explanation-4: -Virginia planters developed the commodity crop of tobacco as their chief export. It was a labor-intensive crop, and demand for it in England and Europe led to an increase in the importation of African slaves in the colony.