The drawback of the methods to attract people to the southern colonies varied. In theory, indentured servitude was noble idea which benefited owners of farms along with the servant. Indentured servitude was a system to generate a temporary work force. In exchange for food, shelter, and free passage, men and or women would bind themselves to a master for an arranged time of around 3 to 5 years. After the time the males worked they were supposed to r

Another scheme to attain potential laborers to the New World was called the head right system. Labor was scarce among the early immigrants, and they lacked an immediate work force. But cattle and other livestock multiplied rapidly on the coastal areas, and their meat could be sent to away in exchange for enslaved Africans. The colony's head right system allowed a planter to claim more land from a individual who had proprietorship over the land for each person imported (around 50 acres), slave or free, and these workers could cut trees until land was cleared for agriculture. This resulted in some wealthy people in Virginia and other southern colonies in accumulating huge tracts of land through the system. Some of these first black arrivals understood the cultivation of rice, a grain well known in West Africa but unfamiliar to northern Europe. Ironically, this crop was quickly adopted by their white owners, who used the profits to buy more African workers. By 1708 there was a black majority in the colony and plantation agriculture was beginning to expand, which means revenue for the colony.

The only real negative side to the head right system is the lack of ethics. Getting more land to yourself for bringing someone into the colony is immoral because only a couple people could own a huge amount of la

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