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                                               North Carolina


              In the early years the line between indentured servants and African laborers was vague. Some Africans were allowed to earn their freedom before slavery became a lifelong inprinsonment. Most of the free colored families found in North Carolina in the censuses of 1790-1810 were descended from unions or marriages between free white women and enslaved or free African or African-American men in colonial Virginia. Because the mothers were free, their offspring were free. As the importation of indentured laborers slowed because of improving monetary conditions in Britain, the colony was short on cheap labor and brought in more slaves. 


                   

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