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It was awful. The Zong ship was the worst. They would get a handful of food each day to share between about 600 of them. If they were ill they would be thrown overboard because ill slaves weren't worth anything.
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∙ 14y agoIt was very harsh and demanding. It also caused many arguments between southern and northern states. These led up to the Great Compromise.
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In what state was slavery illegal in the late 1700s'?
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Slavery and what is was like to be a slave in the 1700s.
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slavery in the 1700s
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Yes it did dumb nit
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The invention of Eli Whitney's "Cotton Gin" expanded the plantation system and slavery.
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=In the 1700s white people wanted someone to do their work for them. So they went to Africa.=
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Try googling "1700s people"
Did the middle colonies believe in slavery in the 1700?
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Slavery was legal in Delaware throughout the 1600s and 1700s. In the late 1700s, Delaware became the first state to join the United States.
How long has racism been around?
For thousands of years. such as slavery and segregation existed before the 1700s racism didn’t start in 1700s it has existed for a long time in 500 CE jewish peaple were massively discriminated against and even some were inslaved in egyp
