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Actually, indentureship didn't work out very well and that is why slaves were needed. The people who came as indentured servants were white Englishmen who wanted to start a new life or get away from the enclosure movement in England. They signed a 7 year contract to work in exchange for their fare to the colonies, but very few finished the 7 years once they arrived. It was easy for them to disappear into the population. When the slaves arrived it was easy to see that they were a slave simply because they were black. Anyone who was black was a slave. It is the slaves who built this country. They stood ankle deep in mud planting rice in the Carolina's , they raised the children, built the roads, dug the canals, cleaned the houses, picked the cotton and worked at what they were told to do. They were property owned by another human and were treated as such.

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Indentured servants were important in colonial America because they provided a source of cheap labor for industries such as agriculture and tobacco farming. They helped meet the labor demands of the growing colonies and allowed individuals who could not afford the cost of passage to America to work off their debt through a set period of servitude.

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