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Why were indentured servants needed in 1600s

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during the columbian exchange, the europeans needed more labor to help grow them crops. they had tried many other ways to get free labor, but the slaves kept escaping or leaving. therefore, indentured servants were created to give europeans free labor, without slaves escaping.
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Answer: he earliest settlers soon realized that they had lots of land to care for, but no one to care for it. With passage to the Colonies expensive for all but the wealthy, the Virginia Company developed the system of indentured servitude to attract workers. Indentured servants became vital to the colonial economy

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