1607 To 1750 Slavery Dbq Analysis

The causes of the development of the institution of slavery in the period from 1607 to 1750 are due to the growth of farming and the necessity of manual labor to produce a profit. Document 1 leads to this as it shows the changes from 1637-1705 between indentured servants and slaves as the necessity for slaves grew. The most notable dates of this graph are the increase of Servants in 1657-1664 and the fall of these Servants and the growing need for slaves. During this time indentured servants were people who were willing to work to obtain profit mainly hoping to earn enough profit to own land themselves, landowners needed manual labor as they were not fit nor ready to work on their land, so they decided to purchase multiple signed contracts