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1690s

1690s: Black slaves in Virginia began to outnumber white indentured servants by a ratio of four to one.

1690s: Black slaves in Virginia began to outnumber white indentured servants by a ratio of four to one. This reversal of the labor ratio signaled the complete entrenchment of racial slavery in the colony.

Source  ·  p. xx Eltis & Richardson, Atlas, xx