Early laborers on Virginia plantations were part of a system called indentured servitude. These laborers were the:
A) poor French men and women who hoped to make a lot of money and buy land of their own.
B) English and Irish poor who sold their labor for four to seven years to cover the cost of their trip to the colonies.
C) enslaved Africans who had the option to buy their way out of slavery after working for a period of several years on a tobacco plantation.
D) sons of gentry who would learn the plantation system from the bottom up before running tobacco plantations of their own.
E) Native Americans who were forced to work on plantations throughout the Chesapeake.
B
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