Indentured Servants Were Important to the Development of the Seventeenth-Century

Indentured servants were important to the development of the seventeenth-century Chesapeake because they

A) were usually artisans who brought needed skills to the area.
B) provided a relatively cheap and abundant source of labor for Chesapeake tobacco planters.
C) brought new ideas concerning the cultivation and cure of tobacco.
D) provided labor for important public projects undertaken by the colonial governments of Virginia and Maryland.