Slavery, never reaching stable maturity, progressively degraded the lives of enslaved people in the Chesapeake region. ... Between 1620-1670 people of African descent never accounted for more then 5 percent of the population, people of various races existed together during the charter generation; thus, the rigid social distinctions that segregated people on the basis of race were not a universal characteristic of these early societies with slaves (Clark, Pujara 1/29/15). ... During this time, due to a labor shortage, the slave trade intensified as Europeans moved deeper and deeper into Africa....

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