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Why or Why Not.To Be or Not to Be. Houston we have a problem. Damn the torpedoes, full Speed Ahead.
Bad introduction and a worse answer, Economics, Yes, greed certainly, Economics 101 absolutely. If product "X" sells for a Pound Sterling at the London marketplace and its cost to produce can be improved by lowering labor cost by using slavery which was legal at the moment instead of indentured servitude, then the "Power of the Purse" prevailed. If you could multiply that profit margin via the Triangle Trade a shire or Manor in England was available on the market.
Slaves were cheap labor.
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What percentage of colonial Delaware was slaves?
2%
What happen to the slaves in Delaware Kentucky Maryland and Missouri?
Those states didn't have slaves.
What state did not free the slaves?
The state that did not free the slaves was Delaware. Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri did not free slaves either.
What river do the slaves have to cross to get to Delaware?
Slaves had to cross the Delaware River to reach the state of Delaware. The river served as a natural barrier between the free states in the north and the slave states in the south.
The state with more free blacks than slaves?
delaware
Was colonial Delaware a slave holding colony?
Yes, colonial Delaware was a slave-holding colony. Slavery was legal and practiced in Delaware from the early colonial period until the end of the Civil War. The economy of the colony relied on slave labor for industries such as agriculture and shipbuilding.
What did Delaware use slaves for?
Field Work & House Hold Work.
What were the slaves state that did not secede and join the confederacy?
Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland and Delaware
What 5 slaves states did not secede from the union?
Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Delaware, and Maryland.
Where did slaves work in Delaware?
Slaves in Delaware worked primarily on farms and in domestic service. Many were also employed in industries such as shipbuilding, lumber mills, and iron works.
The slave state with more free black people than slaves was Virginia?
No. Tennessee was.
Was the Delaware Colony free or slave?
When the colonists first settled in what is now Delaware most of them came as English indentured servants, of course later on there were African slaves. In the early 1800's the majority of the African population in Delaware were free, though there was not any official legislature declaring them free. Delaware remained in the Union during the Civil War. In 1861 Abraham Lincoln pushed for the remaining slave holders to be compensated in return of the freedom of the slaves, at the time there were less than 1,800 slaves in Delaware (mostly in Sussex county) and in 1862 slavery was declared unlawful in all U.S. territories
