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…showed last 75 words of 936 total…indentured servants? Or would they rely on enslaved African workers for life. The colonists had a choice to make, they could use laborers who were free or who would one day become free. Or the could force people to work their fields for them indefinitely, without any hope of freedom for themselves or their children. To the present day , we carry the scars of the decision they made: gradually, over several generations, they chose slavery.