SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA
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The plantation system of the United States was not as extensive as the plantation systems of Brazil and the Caribbean.
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The protestant beliefs of American Southern colonies did not support the slave trade.
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The height of the slave trade was around 1800, at this point slavery was on the decline in the United States.
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The United States depended more on Native American slave labor; therefore, African slave labor was not needed.
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Detailed explanation-1: -No northern or middle colony was without its slaves. From Puritan Massachusetts to Quaker Pennsylvania, Africans lived in bondage. Economics and geography did not promote the need for slave importation like the plantation South. Consequently, the slave population remained small compared to their southern neighbors.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Part of the reason slavery evolved differently in New England than in the middle and southern colonies was the culture of indentured servitude. As a carryover from English practice, indentured servants were the original standard for forced labor in New England and middle colonies like Pennsylvania and Delaware.
Detailed explanation-4: -Explanation: Large plantation owners preferred slaves over indentured servitude since they could harness the work for a longer time.