Native Americans During European Settlements With Massive...

Early 1600s set the time period for European settlements with massive immigration mainly from Europe and Africa. New World exploration, trade, and settlement connected the peoples of Europe, Africa, and the Americas through commerce and labor coercion. The trade of goods among the three worlds continually grew along-with migration to the Americas. The crops such as tobacco produced in the southern colonies, specifically Maryland and Virginia, contributed to the development of commerce between the worlds connected by the Atlantic. This led to the increase in demand for labor in the Americas. The Native Americans initially provided the labor for the production of goods in the southern colonies. But, with constant evolving trade and the†¦show more content†¦The Native Americans, including the Powhatan, denied to work as plantation laborers and were forced by wars to flee away from English settlements. Due to the conflicts with Native American laborers, the indentured servitude and slave trade in the southern colonies increased. As the indentured servitude was labor based on a contract, it became inconvenient for the planters as they had to trade some of their land and provide rights to the servants. In the case of denial of rights and requirement for more intensive labor led to conflicts by the indentured servants. During the late 1600s, the British economy improved which, led to decrease in the English people migration to the Americas as indentured servants. Besides, the African slaves were less able to communicate, cheap to hire, and served for long time period under harsh conditions. Due to the conflicts for rights, living conditions, demand for intensive labor, and decline in the indentured servitude, labor system transformed from Native American laborers to indentured servants and ultimately, based on slave labor in the southern colonies in late 1600s. Indentured servitude was increasingly relied upon in the southern colonies as the demand for labor was not fulfilled by the Native Americans and conflicts for rights increased. With constant growing economy, the production of crops such as tobacco, rice demanded more intensive labor. The Native Americans provided the labor required to produce the