1619 is when the first slaves were brought over.
Native Americans were used as slaves by the Spanish in the southwest mines, but English colonies did not use Native Americans as slaves. The first African American slave arrived in 1619 to the Virginia colonies.
Black slavery in America began in 1619, when the first African slaves were brought to Jamestown, Virginia to work on plantations of tobacco.
While all colonies had some sort of agriculture, the plantations colonies were found in the south. The northern states, of which New Jersey is one, very quickly found their economic base in industry - factories.
In the US colonies, in the early 1600s. They were originally treated more like indentured servants. If you mean the Americas as a whole, in the 1540s. Slaves worked on sugar plantations in the Caribbean once the native population began to die off due to disease.
when i looked this up, i got many different answers but it was 1619 when the first slaves entered the colonies
The first African slaves were brought to Virginia by the English in the 17th Century, but Spain probably had them in their American colonies earlier than that.
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1619 is when the first slaves were brought over.
Native Americans were used as slaves by the Spanish in the southwest mines, but English colonies did not use Native Americans as slaves. The first African American slave arrived in 1619 to the Virginia colonies.
slave plantations started in the first 13 colonies...it started in the years of1820 thru 1860
On plantations in southern colonies
1629
The first African slaves arrived in Jamestown in 1619.
re: the British colonies, to grow tobacco
The slaves came to Virginia colonies in 1619 and 1721 on a Dutch ship and on a Frenchship called the Africane
They bought slaves. The first slave came in 1619 and by 1860 there were 5 million slaves.