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Planters began using enslaved persons when indentured servants became scarce and expensive.

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Tobacco was the principal cash crop in Maryland and Virginia. First, planters used indentured servants to grow tobacco because it was a great deal of work. When indentured servants became scarce and expensive, Southern planters began using African slaves instead.

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