I. Pamphlets

A. Advertisements

B. Audience

C. Appealed to many who felt they had little stake in England since the enclosure laws

D. Free men to America first, then too many gentlemen and not enough labourers

E. Indentured Servants

II. Starving Time

A. Sixty people survived

B. The colony's labour force was dwindling

III. Land Acquisition

A. Population stablilized

1. Land acquisition more difficult with more people

B. Differentiation of class by land holdings

C. Tobacco busts drove freedmen back to their former masters

 

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