It takes a huge amount of labor to harvest tobacco, so the use of indentured servants is an easy and effective way to get workers. Also, indentured servants are bound to you for a set amount of years. The drawbacks may be that the price of sending over to America is expensive and may result in some sort of rebellious behavior. Bacon’s rebellionnwas the result of previously indentured servbats who were fed up with being left out and ignored by the rich elites near the coast, so the result of getting too many indentured servants might backfire on you.
