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If indentured servitude is so beneficial to the planter why does African slavery become the dominant form of labor in Virginia starting about 1700?
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If indentured servitude is so beneficial to the planter why does African slavery become the dominant form of labor in Virginia starting about 1700?

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Because once an indentured servants time is up, you have to let them live their own life, but if you have a slave, you literally own them and keep them until they die if you choose to do so.
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