The Virginia Company shifted to a policy of indentured servitude in 1620 to secure labor for the tobacco colonies because the initial colonists, who were primarily from the gentry, lacked practical farming skills and suffered from starvation and disease.

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  Student Debt and The Spirit of Indenture - Dissent Magazine

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