Compare and contrast indentured servitude with black slavery. Why did Chesapeake colonists switch from the former to the latter?
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Indentured servitude was short term contract labor, usually involving white Europeans. Slavery was lifetime inheritable service only involving Africans. Consider the switch as a result of the need for labor, the declining availability of indentured servants, the growing availability of blacks (becoming less expensive), the need for a more reliable labor force, and that English racial attitudes seemed to justify slavery for blacks.
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a. housing. b. lynching. c. segregation. d. civil rights. e. voting.
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a. was strongest in the South and Southwest. b. was an anti-Jackson party. c. was the nation's first third party. d. opposed moral and religious reform. e. was a strong opponent of the Whig party.