40% of Pompeiians were slaves and 60% were free
why did people own slaves
Note that in modern times, not so many black people are slaves, but slavery does exist in several parts of the world.
No. The majority of people in the Southern Colonies were small farmers who did not own slaves and people who did not own land at all. The earliest plantation owners were in the minority and were mostly British in origin. Many white people were just as poor as the black slaves and many had to hire themselves out to do work for the wealthy land owners.
yes they did.
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In Africa, some blacks did, and do in the present day, own slaves. In the United States of America I doubt if any black people held other black people as slaves.
They did not know how to live on their own as free people. -APEX
bc they exchanges them for gold,guns and other goods.
No actually only a small amount of people actually did own slaves but those who did ran huge plantations, also the amount of people that owned slaves also greatly increased after the invention of the cotton gin which made cotton the main cash crop in the south causing many farmers to want to buy slaves.
Fully 3/4 of southerners did not own slaves at the eve of the Civil War.
Wealthy people