European Colonization

AP US History· difficulty 3/5

Indentured servants in early Virginia

A
$Were exclusively convicted prisoners transported from English jails$
B
$Were enslaved for life and could be sold or inherited as chattel property$
C
$Worked 4-7 years for passage to America in exchange for eventual freedom$
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D
$Owned tobacco plantations alongside Virginia's leading gentry families$

Explanation

Most early labor was indentured Europeans; African slavery expanded as supply of indentured workers diminished.

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