Yes. Out of a population of 9 million people in 1860 4 million were slaves.
Southern Colonies had slaves to do their work on the plantation, Middle Colonies had some slaves but they were kinda in the middle, while the New England Colonies had no slaves.
The entrance of slaves into the colonies was a gradual process. By 1860 there were 6 million slaves on southern plantations.
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The Southern Colonies were of an agrarian economy, so they worked in agriculture, which called for plantations for the crops and the slaves to work on the crops. This became so deeply rooted that this is why the Southern Colonies that were soon to be the Southern States wished for slavery to be legal in the US.
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Slaves were held in all thirteen of the original colonies. Or True.
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