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Why were slaves forced to perform labor in the American colonies

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because some ppl were lazy and didnt wanna do no work for themselves

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The consensus view among economic historians and economists is that indentured servitude became popular in the Thirteen Colonies in the seventeenth century because of a large demand for labor there, coupled with labor surpluses in Europe and high costs of transatlantic transportation

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