SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA
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to work labor intensive crops like sugar and tobacco crops
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Europeans did not understand farming and required the African slaves to teach them.
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there were only women natives in the Americas and they needed men to balance the population
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they were the only continents that purchased slaves.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Enslaved Africans were first brought to Virginia in 1619. 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.
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: -The labor of enslaved Africans was integral to the cultivation of the cane and production of sugar. Slaves toiled in the fields and the boiling houses, supplying the huge amounts of labor that sugar required.
Detailed explanation-4: -Most favoured by slave owners were commercial crops such as olives, grapes, sugar, cotton, tobacco, coffee, and certain forms of rice that demanded intense labour to plant, considerable tending throughout the growing season, and significant labour for harvesting.
Detailed explanation-5: -Slaves may have brought key cash crop with them. In colonial America, slaves from west Africa made many a plantation owner rich by growing a particular high-quality variety of rice.