Which statements are examples of work slaves did in the americas?
(there can be more than one)

a.) most north american slaves harvested sugar, as well as rice, tobacco, and indigo.

b.) more slaves worked on farms and in households in the american north than in the deep south.

c.) the invention of the cotton gin made cotton farming profitable and increased the demand for slaves.

d.) most slaves shipped across the atlantic worked in the sugar colonies of brazil and the caribbean.

The correct options are: C - D

The vast majority of African slaves went to sugarcane colonies in the Caribbean region and to Brazil, where life expectancy was short and slaves had to be constantly replaced. Life expectancy was much higher in the United States, generally for better food, fewer illnesses, less work and better medical service. Slavery in the United States refers to the legal institution that existed in the United States during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The practice of slavery became very popular in the southern part of the US where cotton crops abounded, these plantations, most of the workers were slaves brought from Africa.

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