SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE 13 COLONIES LIFE IN EARLY AMERICA
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Northern Slaves were freed and sent back to Africa
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Each region (South, Middle, New England) had around the same numbers of slaves.
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laws were written to abolish (get rid of) slavery
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There were slaves throughout all the colonies, but most of the slaves were in the Southern Region
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Detailed explanation-1: -In fact, throughout the colonial period, Virginia had the largest slave population, followed by Maryland.
Detailed explanation-2: -Britain was the most dominant between 1640 and 1807 and it is estimated that Britain transported 3.1 million Africans (of whom 2.7 million arrived) to the British colonies in the Caribbean, North and South America and to other countries.
Detailed explanation-3: -Throughout colonial and antebellum history, U.S. slaves lived primarily in the South. Slaves comprised less than a tenth of the total Southern population in 1680 but grew to a third by 1790. At that date, 293, 000 slaves lived in Virginia alone, making up 42 percent of all slaves in the U.S. at the time.
Detailed explanation-4: -Slaves worked at all sorts of jobs throughout the slaveholding South, but the majority were field hands on relatively large plantations. Men, women, and children served as field hands. The owner decided when slave children would go into the fields, usually between the ages of 10 and 12.