SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE SOUTHERN COLONIES SETTLEMENT AND GROWTH
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the development of the plantation system.
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greater efforts to capture Africans by other Africans.
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an increase in the number of European slave traders.
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changing attitudes about the justice of owning slaves.
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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 English colonies expanded rapidly and the development of a plantation system and the growth of the Atlantic economy brought further demands for African labour. This increased the scale of the trade in enslaved people.
Detailed explanation-3: -How did southern agriculture cause an increase in the number of enslaved Africans brought to North America? As plantations and agriculture grew larger and more successful, the demand for slave labor grew. To meet this demand, the slave trade grew.
Detailed explanation-4: -Beginning in the 16th century and for centuries after, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Dutch traders systematically purchased large numbers of African people, many of whom had been captured by the traders’ African allies in wars or in raids, and transported them to the American colonies for permanent enslavement.