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In the 1600s, indentured servants in the southern colonies

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they agreed to work for Passage to the colonies. the headright system allowed Planters to be given 50 acres of land for every person they paid for to come over.
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worked for several years in exchange for transportation to the Americas, food, and lodging.

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