tobacco in Virginia and also cotton
The establishment of tobacco farming in Virginia led to the importation of indentured servants and African slaves to work on the plantations. The demand for labor increased rapidly as tobacco became a profitable crop, prompting planters to turn to indentured servants and later to African slaves to meet their labor needs.
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.
Main crop worked was sugarcane.African slaves eventually outnumbered whites.Brutal working environment and harsh treatment.Employed indentured servants from England before turning to African slaves.Native population was too small to provide a workforce.
Because they were cheap labor. They wanted to be able to do unwanted work cheaply without doing it themselves. It started with indentured servants, which eventually lead to African slaves. they were mostly used in the south for the tobacco crops which the leaves had to be harvested by hand. The other main crop they were used for is cotton.
Slaves were carried across the Atlantic Ocean and sold to the New World to their master to crop plantation.
First of all indentured people were NOT Slaves. They were people who signed a contract for 7 years to work off the cost spent for them to come to the colonies ( actually there are indentured servants still today). A slave was a human who was bought and sold. They had no say in their life, they were in chains, they had their identity taken from them, they were not free to leave or decide any thing about how they spent their life. The indentured servant was a free white who did decide how to live their life.
tobbacco or Sassafras
Most indentured servants were poor people from Europe who had signed themselves into contracts on tobacco farms in the New World. Contracts lasted 5 years and would then give the newly freed servant their own plot of land to plant and live on. Unfortunately, tobacco prices crashed and many were forced to sign another contract after the first five years to survive or go into debt trying to raise their own crop.
well spanish brought slaves to harvest the cash crop tocacco and cotton
tabacco
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