In the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century American Colonies, How Did Indentured

question 80

Multiple Choice

In the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century American colonies, how did indentured servitude and race-based slavery evolve in relation to each other?

• A) As Enlightenment ideas spread about the evilness of race-based slavery, the number of enslaved Africans in America declined, and the number of European indentured servants gradually rose to compensate.
• B) As commercial agriculture grew, the colonists came to prefer the labor of enslaved Native Americans to that of enslaved Africans or indentured servants due to their familiarity with American crops.
• C) After 1700, most new immigrants coming to the Americas were English rather than African, so English indentured servants were given the bulk of the agricultural labor in the South.
• D) As the sugar, tobacco, rice, and indigo economies expanded and demanded harsher, more intensive labor, the number of enslaved Africans grew and the number of European indentured servants slowed.
• E) Because the original Africans of the Americas had come to have children who were also enslaved, the colonists no longer maintained slave-trading companies, and indentured servitude became obsolete.

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