Why did slavery start in the colonies? How were slaves brought to the colonies?

What types of jobs did slaves do in each colonial region: New England, Middle and the South?

Why were the jobs in each region different?

Why were slaves important to the colonial economy?

What difficulties did slaves face?

What alternative to slavery do you think the colonists could have used to solve the labor shortage?

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for the first question the answer is

The colony was founded mainly by planters from the overpopulated English sugar island of Barbados, who brought relatively large numbers of African slaves from that island to establish new plantations. To meet agricultural labor needs, colonists also practiced Indian slavery for some time.

the answer for the second question is

Slaves included captives from wars and slave raids; captives bartered from other tribes, sometimes at great distances; children sold by their parents during famines; and men and women who staked themselves in gambling when they had nothing else, which put them into servitude in some cases for life.

the answer for third question is

The slaves in the New England would do house work. The Middle region slaves would help with house work and some crops that their owners had. The Southern slaves would usually work in the fields harvesting and planting crops such as cotton and tobacco.

the answer for fourth question is

The main reason why jobs in each region were different was because the different regions had very different mode of production. ... Each region had different job opportunities because of the environment. For example, in the south the soil was rich and fertile allowing the mass production of cash crops.

the answer for the fifth question is

England's southern colonies in North America developed a farm economy that could not survive without slave labor. Many slaves lived on large farms called plantations. These plantations produced important crops traded by the colony, crops such as cotton and tobacco.

the answer for the sixth question

While working on plantations in the Southern United States, many slaves faced serious health problems. Improper nutrition, unsanitary living conditions, and excessive labor made them more susceptible to diseases than their owners; the death rates among the slaves were significantly higher due to diseases.

the answer for seventh question is

Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries people were kidnapped from the continent of Africa, forced into slavery in the American colonies and exploited to work as indentured servants and labor in the production of crops such as tobacco and cotton.

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