Question 9 • *MPS SS221-CR U.S. History S1 2023-24
Bacon’s Rebellion exposed the danger colonial elites saw in a large population of poor former indentured servants joining together in revolt. Afterward, Virginia’s planters increasingly relied on enslaved Africans rather than indentured laborers, contributing to a decline in indentured servitude. This was a shift toward race-based slavery, not a decline in it.
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