Question

Plantation owners needed large amounts of manual labor to grow tobacco, rice, and indigo.

They had their passage paid for to America from their origin countries.
Landowners were rewarded with additional land for bringing more laborers to work their land. This enabled them to plant more crops, which made colonial leaders more money.
You were promised room and board while you worked for your master. You were given passage to the New World and promised land when your period of service was over.
Life was very hard. Only about 40 percent of servants lived to the end of their contract. Female servants were often mistreated and punished for pregnancy. Travel to the New World was hard and dangerous.
Early servants were able to get land but as the century progressed, most of the good land was taken by plantation owners. Freed servants were left to settle farther west in the mountains and unsettled territory.
After Bacon’s Rebellions, planters were less inclined to hire indentured servants and instead began hiring slaves.

Answer 1

Indentured servitude was initially used to meet the labor demands of colonial plantations, but due to harsh conditions and the lack of land for freed servants, the system gave way to racially based permanent slavery.

Step-by-step explanation:

The labor needs of colonial plantation owners for crops like tobacco, rice, and indigo resulted in the importation and use of indentured servants. These servants agreed to work for a set number of years in exchange for passage to America and a promise of land once their service ended.

As the need for labor grew and the best lands were taken by wealthy landowners, indentured servants who survived their term faced difficulties and often had to settle in less desirable western territories.

Over time, the system evolved into one relying more on enslaved African labor, which became inheritable and race-based, transforming the character of labor in the New World.

Indentured servants were initially an integral part of the labor force in the Americas to grow labor-intensive crops. However, due to the harsh conditions, high mortality rate, and eventual exhaustion of land availability, the system proved unsustainable.

Consequently, as demand for labor increased and after events like Bacon's Rebellion, slavery became more prevalent, permanently altering the labor system in the colonies.