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1.  With the labor needs rising to produce sugar, tobacco, and cotton, the New World had issues finding some help. The Europeans would travel back and forth from the West Indies and South America to Europe to transport sugar and other goods. The Europeans went on a search for labor and ended up in Africa (Schultz, 2017). African kingdoms wanted to take advantage of the European trade deals and decided to trade many of their people for goods. The demand for African slaves was growing rapidly, the needs couldn’t be met. Europeans would raid African villages to capture slaves. They were then transported to the New World, where they were chained, kept in closed quarters, and beat (Chew, 2018).  

Once they arrived in America, they were auctioned and bought by business owners and farmers. Slaves were all over. In the North, they were treated more humanly while the South treated them inhumanly. They were beaten and murdered by their owners. As for what they did for labor, “most slaves were field hands who grew sugar cane, rice, tobacco, or cotton” (Schultz, 2017). African women would work either in the field and or given tasks in the home. African slaves played a vital part in the rise and success of America.   

References: 

Chew, R. (2018). Slavery in the City: Architecture and Landscapes of Urban Slavery in North America ed. by Clifton Ellis and Rebecca Ginsburg (review). Journal of Southern History, 84(4), 991–993. https://doi-org.bethelu.idm.oclc.org/10.1353/soh.2018.0270 

Schultz, K. M. (2017). HIST, Volume 1. [Savant Learning Systems]. Retrieved from https://savantlearningsystems.vitalsource.com/#/books/9781337516600/ 

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The role of slavery in the British Colonies in America differentiate depending on the region. All regions used slaves for labor but in different ways. The region of New England possessed slave labor but was not dependent on it (Schultz, 2017).  New England would turn molasses into rum and then ship it to Africa, where they would then receive slaves as trade along with gold. The Middle Colonies used slaves to work in agriculture and, like New England, they traded rum for slaves and gold. 35,000 of the Middle Colonies population were slaves. The Chesapeake region Owned slaves and of the 500,000 population, 190,000 were slaves. These slaves worked mainly on tobacco plantations (Schultz, 2017). In 1760 slaves made up 40% of the Chesapeake region’s population. The Southern Colonies had a population of 215,000, of which 95,000 were slaves. The bulk of the working class was made up of slaves from Africa (Schults, 2017).  Shultz (2017) stated, “Slave labor was the key to the development of cotton” (p.70).  

      Each region enjoyed a vibrant economy based on commerce, agriculture, and industry (Schultz, 2017). In this enjoyment came more slavery, due to slavery being legal in all British colonies at this time. The harsh slave system only grew due to The Great Awakening because of the growth of churches, the rise of new churches, the development of colleges, religion and science, and the decline of authority (Schultz,2017). Bly (2017) stated, “New Englanders were the first to reflect seriously on the moral implications of slavery” (p.337). Not that this changed much due to politics, but they were the first ones to take a step back and start to understand how morally wrong this was.  

References:  

Bly, A. T. (2017). New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America. African American Review, 50(3), 336–339. 

Schultz, K. M. (2017). HIST, Volume 1. [Savant Learning Systems]. Retrieved from https://savantlearningsystems.vitalsource.com/#/books/9781337516600/