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Colonial Plantations: Labor and Freedom in 1600s is a document available to read on EtoBox.
This document discusses the culture of colonial plantations in the 1600s and the need for cheap labor. It describes the social hierarchy of colonial America, with large plantation owners and farmers at the top as landowners who could vote and hold political office. Below them were tenants, merchants, indentured servants who made up most immigrants but lacked land ownership, and slaves who were at the very bottom of society as involuntary laborers imported from Africa. The document reviews how colonial Ameri
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