Question

How did indentured servitude and slavery evolve from the start in the 13 colonies to 1640?

Answer 1

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Explanation:

The significant starting point of slavery in the 13 colonies in America was in August, 1619, when twenty African slaves who were seized from a Portuguese slave ship, were brought ashore in the British colony of Jamestown, Virginia by White Lion, a privateer ship owned by Robert Rich, Earl of Warwick.

European settlers in the North American colonies began relying on African slaves and indenture servants for sources of cheap labour.

Enslaved Africans were forced to work on rice and tobacco plantations from the Chesapeake bay colonies of Maryland and Virginia to Georgia. By 1640 both slaves and indentured servants existed.