What event in early American history began the transition from using more European indentured servants to using more enslaved people of African descent for labor in the American colonies?
Answer: Indentured servants first arrived in America in the decade following the ... With passage to the Colonies expensive for all but the wealthy, the Virginia ... Indentured servants became vital to the colonial economy. ... Landowners turned to African slaves as a more profitable and ever-renewable source of labor.
