USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Throughout the 17th century, European settlers in North America turned to enslaved Africans as a cheaper, more plentiful labor source than indentured servants, who were mostly poor Europeans.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Barbados Slave Code of 1661, officially titled as An Act for the better ordering and governing of Negroes, was a law passed by the Parliament of Barbados to provide a legal basis for slavery in the English colony of Barbados.

Detailed explanation-3: -The enslaved were then sold in the southern USA, the Caribbean Islands and South America, where they were used to work the plantations. Plantations were farms growing only crops that Europe wanted: tobacco, sugar, cotton.

Detailed explanation-4: -Slave traders violently captured Africans and loaded them onto slave ships, where for months these individuals endured the “Middle Passage”-the crossing of the Atlantic from Africa to the North American colonies or West Indies. Many Africans did not survive the journey.