Why were indentured servants necessary in the 1600s?

The elite needed labor workers to help them grow in the new world and the indentured servants helped the new world grow.

- tobacco.

- "rolfe reacted to consumer demand by importing seed from the west indies and cultivating the plant in the jamestown colony. those tobacco seeds became the seeds of a huge economic empire.the tobacco economy rapidly began to shape the society and development of the colony. growing tobacco takes its toil on the soil."

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