Engalnd was going through a massive population boom in the 1600s with 75% of English immigrants being indentured
Some of the immigrants were young men from the “middling classes”, some had fled during the cloth trade slump, and others had been forced off their land due to enclosure
In the late 17th century the supply of indentured servants gradually ran out, leading the Southerners resolving the situation by employing African slaves
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