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When slaves arrived in America they did what they were told. They were not permitted to think for themselves but comply with the directions of whoever was in charge of them or they would be punished, often brutally.
They were usually loaded off ships into a warehouse area, given just enough nourishment that kept them alive until the could be sold or auctioned off to the highest bidder. After the sales, they had to do whatever their owner told them. This was the rest of their lives.
Slaves arriving in America today are brought in under cover, and do whatever their "owners" tell them or suffer a consequence. Slaves today don't usually remain enslaved for a lifetime. Because they are kept in secret, they will only be slaves until their enslavement is uncovered by authorities, they outlive their usefulness to their "masters", escape or die early.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 13y agoin order to operate huge tracts of land as effective farms, the white land owners of the New World, which included what later became America, the Caribbean, and South America, sought slaves from Africa to do the work required to make the white men rich. Slave trade between Africa and the Americas began soon after Columbus arrived in the New World, but it grew slowly at first. For about the first hundred years, starting in the early 1500s, it was mainly indentured white servants brought from Europe, and native Americans, who worked the farms, partly because slaves were too expensive at the time to be bought in mass numbers.
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What year were slaves first brought to North America from Africa?
By the late 1500s, the introduction of African slaves was absorbed to north America. (Scientific American)
Why were the slaves not sent to north America?
They were. The first slave arrived to the American colonies in 1619.
When did North America not have slaves?
before the Europeans took over and after the American civil war
Where did the slaves working in the United States of America come from?
Most slaves in the North American continent came from Africa but not all. Some were Chinese, and some Native Americans held slaves at the time that Abraham Lincoln freed all the slaves with the Emancipation Proclamation, these people too were free.
How did slaves adapt in North America?
how did slaves adtp
Where did slaves that were sent to North America mainly come from?
Most slaves who were sent to North America came from Africa.
How did African American culture develop in British North America?
African slaves brought ideas and skills with them from Africa.
What did south America have more than north America?
slaves
When were the first slaves brought to America?
1619Slavery in America began when the first African slaves were brought to the North American colony of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619, to aid in the production of such lucrative crops as tobacco.
Who started the slave trade in America?
The American, when they went over to Africa to get slaves they brought them to America and sold them off to the British North Americans who kept them as slaves for as long as they could. Many of the slaves decided to take their own lives and jumped overboard while being boarded to America.
Where was the largest concentration of slaves in north America?
The largest concentration of slaves in North America was in the southern states. They used slaves extensively to harvest labor intensive crops like cotton.
What is Miami Florida's continent?
North America.
