During the seventeenth century, indentured servitude solved the labor problem in many English colonies for all of the following reasons except that

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Spain did not send slaves to its New World colonies, but this did not affect the labor problem in English colonies as they did not rely on Spanish slave trade. The other options, such as the unreliability of the Indian population, cost of African slaves, slow family formation, and slow population growth, were all factors that led to the increased use of indentured servitude.

During the Seventeenth Century, Indentured Servitude Solved the Labor Problem