Work.
Apart from the occupations of a comparatively small proportion of the population who were ministers, teachers, lawyers, merchants, or shopkeepers, farm work was the chief occupation in early America. Tobacco growing, the main activity in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake region, was labor intensive. Planting, hoeing, cutting, and drying was done by farmers and a larger indentured labor force. Indentured servants financed their passage to America by contracting to labor for four to seven years. Many eventually acquired their own farms.... ...
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