For most of the 17th century, the number of slaves in the American colonies is quite small. Indentured servants and the settlers themselves handle most of the colonies' labor needs. The transition to slave labor in the Chesapeake is the result of economic shifts. With improvements in the English economy in the latter decades of the 17th century fewer people are willing to sell themselves as indentured servants. At the same time the cost of Africans goes down, and the demand for labor on tobacco and later cotton plantations increases. Unlike indentured servants, slaves do not have a choice in their fate. Exchange patterns often link slaves of a particular region to crops grown on the plantation.

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inexpensive labor, indentured servants, life expectancy, transition to slavery, African slave traders, exchange patterns, plantation crops, Colonial America

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