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How did cash crops lead to slavery and indentured servitude?

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When cash crops became popular people started lots of farms. There were difficulties with enough workers to run the farms, so they hired indentured servants and started capturing Africans for slavery.

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the need for labor skyrocketed so they brought slaves from Africa and they started there own slave trade down in the south

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