Answer:
The Chesapeake society was basically formed by landowners, servants and free workers during most of the seventeenth century, but more workers were needed. The production of tobacco helped to stabilize Virginia but it also created social tensions because free workers that demanded their rights as Englishmen while slaves didn't have any rights and could be controlled easily. At the end of the seventeenth century, 1 out of 8 people were slaves because it was more profitable to buy slaves and put them to work than paying free Englishmen for their work. Also, slavery provided perpetual labor force while indentured servants were required to work for a certain number of years. Slavery would continue to grow as the number of indentured servants decreased and the cost of hiring free workers increased.
