Part one of term paper
The underlying reasons for the turn to slave labor in early Virginia are plenteous, ranging from colonial economics to pure racism. As the necessity for cheap and permanent labor rose with the success of tobacco cultivation, Virginia planters resorted to the use of slave labor. Early efforts by the English at colonization in the new land were ...

Part two of term paper
... plans of many settlers, so too did the demand for field hands. In an attempt to attract English indentured servants to a colony short of labor, the Virginia legislature made terms of service as attractive as possible. (Vaughan, 141) But as the economy began to thrive once again back in England, more people were resistant about traveling to the New World as a servant rather than an investor in the "tobacco game." Because white labor inevitably became inadequate due to its transient nature, and ...