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Why were indentured servants necessary in the 1600s​

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Answer:Colonists in Virginia were suffering a very high death rate which led to a shortage of labor, the labor was needed because the colonists needed a work force to work on their plantations.

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Plantation owners needed big quantity's of on hand labor to grow tobacco, rice, and indigo.

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