itations of manual workers among the plantations.
             One of the example places was Chesapeake. The economy of Chesapeake was based on the cultivation of tobacco and exporting it to England. As there are more and more great planters joined the industry, there are more competitions between small farms and plantation owners. The growing of tobacco is very labor demanding, a large amount of workers are needed in the hot, humid fields of the Chesapeake.
             When England had learned the news the labor was in large needs in the new colony. Promoters have set off a goal for the English to build their new homes and prosper from growing tobacco. At the time, England's economy was in poor shape, there were many beggars on the streets and people were starving. Labor was cheap and abundant while land was scarce and expensive. Many of the lower class Englishmen could not survive through these harsh environments. Promoters then introduced a creative system, claiming that English men can be bought to colonial America with a certain amount of money for four years, known as the indentured servants, and 150 acres of land will be granted to the freed indentured servant at the end of his service period.
             Many suffering Englishmen from England was attracted by what the promoters offered, and so many lower class Englishmen or prisoners from jails were being imported into the Chesapeake colony. By growing tobacco, many indentured servants did not survive through their terms of services due to harsh environment and long working hours. Many of the indentured servants were short lived. Slavery at first was thought to be too expensive for planters.
             However, as time went by planters have discovered that it actually worth more economical to purchase slaves rather than indentured servants. Indentured servants would become free man and earn their 150 acres of land at the end of their four years of services. However, slaves from Africa, though more expensive, w...