SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
COLONIES OF FRANCE ENGLAND
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Plantations owners tricked indentured servants into signing slavery contracts.
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Plantation owners forced indigenous people to provide labor growing cash crops.
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Plantation owners brought African slaves with them from Europe to provide labor growing cash crops.
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Plantation owners enslaved poor European immigrants who could not pay their debts.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The history and growth of slavery in colonial America was tied to the rise of land cultivation, and particularly the boom in the production of tobacco (in Virginia and Maryland) and rice (in the Carolinas).
Detailed explanation-2: -The settlements required a large number of laborers to sustain them. Because these crops required large areas of land, the plantations grew in size, and in turn, more labor was required to work on the plantations. Plantation labor shifted away from indentured servitude and more toward slavery by the late 1600s.
Detailed explanation-3: -Tobacco profits helped to buy indentured servants and slaves. They also were used to pay local taxes and buy manufactured goods from England. With relatively cheap labor, increasing demand and a system of regulation the colonial plantation system was born.
Detailed explanation-4: -Evidence of slavery predates written records; the practice has existed in many cultures. and can be traced back 11, 000 years ago due to the conditions created by the invention of agriculture during the Neolithic Revolution. Economic surpluses and high population densities were conditions that made mass slavery viable.