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What did slaves make?
Um... everything. Whatever their Master tells them to do. But most slaves were agricultural workers, working on vast plantations of cotton, tobacco, and sugarcane in the Caribbean and along the East Coast of NA. They died by the scores but were usually easily replaced. Pritty much anything
What did the slaves do on tobacco farms in the English colonies?
The slaves in the tobacco farms carried out the task of weeding and cutting out the leaves when it was harvest time. The tobacco stalk had to be cut at the base as one alternative method of harvesting.
What was traded in Virginia?
Tobacco, cotton, indigo, and slaves.
What effect did the discovery of tobacco as a cash crop in Virginia have on the colony's labor supply?
The discovery of tobacco as cash crop in Virginia made the colonies labor supply grow. Indentured servants were first brought in to work the fields but soon after that slaves from Africa were used.
Was it captured Indians or African slaves that did tobacco plantation in early years of Virginia?
African slaves
What was the route of african slaves?
From Europe, they brought textiles, run and manufactured good to Africa. From Africa, they bought slaves or simply took people and made them slaves, and brought them to the Americas. From the Americas, the Europeans brought back the sugar, tobacco and cotton.
What were slaves and indentured servants first brought to North America to produce?
mostly tobacco and riceNote: If you are a student of Penn Foster the exam answer is tobacco
Why were many slaves needed in tobacco plantations?
A typical tobacco plantation would use 100 slaves to work the fields. The south had over 2,320,000 slaves that was over 47 percent of its total population.
What relation did tobacco have with slavery?
Many of the plantations that used slaves grew tobacco, a profitable crop back then.
What was traded in Virginia colony?
Tobacco, cotton, indigo, and slaves.
How did early colonists harvest their tobacco crops?
Slaves, or as the early settlers called them, black "indentured servants", were used to pick tobacco. Later on slaves were used for other crops, like cotton.
A difference between tobacco plantations and cotton and sugar plantations was that tobacco plantations had?
One produced tobacco, the other produced sugar.
