Martha lived in the Middle Colonies and owned a large tobacco plantation. Some seasons hired other colonists to help her bring in the harvest, but often they were busy tending their own fields. A few times she paid for the passage of indentured servants to the colonies, but they were only a short term solution. What might situations such as Martha's have led to in the colonies? an increase in the African slave trade B ) an increase in the price of tobacco in England a decrease in agriculture in the Middle Colonies D) a decrease in the popularity of the Middle Colonies