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How did the Middle Colonies meet their labor needs?

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To meet the colonies' labor demands, farmers and merchants turned to the use of bound labor, either indentured servants or slaves. ... In the middle colonies, slaves made up about 8 percent of the population.

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To meet the colonies' labor demands, farmers and merchants turned to the use of bound labor, either indentured servants or slaves. ... In the middle colonies, slaves made up about 8 percent of the population. The number of indentured servants has been much harder to estimate because of the lack of records.

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