Why did slavery take the place of indentured servitude?

Southern plantation owners needed a large, dependable workforce to grow labor-intensive crops such as tobacco and rice. Enslaved people were forced to work for life, and their children could also be enslaved, making this system more profitable to plantation owners than indentured servitude, which ended after a set term. Therefore, the best answer is “Southern plantation owners wanted a less-costly labor source.”

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