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100 incarcerated men are sent to the Virginia colony after the governor asks the king for more workers.
Date: 1615
Indentured servitude
Labor
Prison Industrial Complex
Colonization
Europe
This continues a wave of kidnappings and forced labor to provide workers for the British colonies–a place that, in the beginning, few Brits wanted to go to.
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