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Best illustrates how some Europeans used the headright system to their advantage

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the leaders of each colony knew that labor was essential for economic survival, so they provided incentives for planters to import workers. for each laborer brought across the Atlantic, the master was rewarded with 50 acres of land. it was used by wealthy plantation aristocrats to increase their land.
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