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Because there was a labor shortage. Anybody who could get to America had all the land they could possibly want for very low cost, but they could get no one to help them work it. New arrivals could get their own land, so , who would want to be someone else's field hand? There was a partial solution in indentured servants. These were poor people recruited in England to go to the colonies. They did not have the money to pay their way, so someone would pay their passage, in return for which they had to work for that person, usually for seven years. But after the seven years they were free to go their own way and acquire their own land.
So, in 1619 when a Dutch ship captain arrived off Jamestown with a cargo of African slaves he had been unable to sell elsewhere and proposed to sell them to the Virginians, it seemed to some like a good idea. Originally these Africans were treated just like the other indentured servants, and freed after seven years. Within a generation or two though the Virginia legislature, and those of other states, had changed laws so that white indentured servants were still freed after seven years but Africans became perpetual servants, never to be freed.
What else can I help you with?
Did slavery in America start with African slaves?
yes the african slaves were brought to the americas
Why were Africans brought to Spanish colonies in the Americas?
They were brought to the Americas for slavery.
Where did slavery start in the Americas?
Originally in the South as a source for farming, income, and other necessities for planters and farmers.
When did slavery start in US when did slavery of the black start in the US?
Slavery started when Christopher Columbus first came to the Americas. He claimed the land his and enslaved all Native Americans. When Native Americans started to die from the small pox disease, because Christoper Columbus and his crew, they decided to enslaved African Americans and, brought them to the Americas to work because most of them where immune to the disease.
Cuba and who were the last to abolish slavery in the Americas?
Cuba and Puerto Rico were the last to abolish slavery in the Americas. In the world, Spanish and Caribbean were among the last ones to eradicate slavery.
What did Spain create in the Americas?
Slavery Estates
What country in the Americas was the first to adopt slavery and one of the last to abolish?
The certain Brazil was the last country in the Americas to abolish slavery. It would appear that documentation is required to establish a fact that the United States was the first nation in the Americas to adopt slavery. With that said, it's clear that before the United States was an independent country, slavery existed in the Americas where the British, French and Spanish ruled colonies and territories.
What country in the Americas was the first to adopt slavery?
Virginia
Cuba and what were the last to abolish slavery in the Americas?
brazil
Cuba and were the last to abolish slavery in the Americas.?
Brazil
Were the abolitionists in favor of outlawing slavery?
Yes it was a movement in western Europe and the Americas to end slavery
What parts of Europe still had slavery when Christopher Columbus started the slave trade to the Americas?
What parts of Europe still had slavery when Christopher Columbus started the slave trade to the Americas?
