Question

How did Jamestown’s booming tobacco trade affect the labor force over time?

A. All indentured servants and slaves were eventually set free.
B. Colonists stopped using indentured servants and started using African slave labor.
C. All indentured servants and slaves began getting paid for their labor.
D. Colonists stopped using African slave labor and started using indentured servants.

Answer 1

Option: B. Colonists stopped using indentured servants and started using African slave labor.

Step-by-step explanation:

Before Slavery became an acceptance in the colonies, indentured servants became common in this region during the early settlement. They remained as an indentured slave from the beginning until 1661. African slaves brought in America as servants and labourers to help tobacco plantations to prosper and generate wealth. Indentured servants were not much favoured in later period because they were part of the contract which allowed them to work for four years after reaching in America and set free. The alternative turned towards slavery, forced to work in the fields with no contract sign for releasing them.