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Cheap (free) labor, and it wasn't illegal at the time. The free market spoke.
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∙ 9y agoSlaves worked without wages, they did as they were told, and worked long hours in the cotton fields.
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How did black slaves obtain the surname mccoy?
From the Scottish plantation (and slave) owners.
Why were rules needed on a slave plantation?
To keep it in order.
What did plantation owners hope to prevent by placing whites in positions of authority?
Slave revolts
Plantation owners had white servants as well as slaves because they feared what?
Slave rebellions
Why were slaves transported for slave labor from Africa to the Americas?
American plantation owners wanted cheap labour
Who depended mostly on slaves in the southern colonies?
slave owners, slave traders, and plantation owners.
Were plantation owners afraid that slaves were using instuments to celebrate when a slave escaped?
no. Because they had overseers and the plantation owners would usually check or guard the plantation.
Who forced the slaves to work?
Slave traders and plantation owners.
Why did John Adams kill crispus attucks?
Was he involved in trying to stage the slave uprising against the plantation/slave owners?Following in the footsteps of Chris( the slave who organized the greatest revolt against the white plantation owners)
Why did southern plantation owners switch to slave labor?
Because they felt like it.
Why plaNtation owners were afraid slaves using instruments to celebrate slave escaped?
No
Plantation owners were afraid that slaves were using instruments to celebrate when a slave escaped?
no
In 1807 why was abolishing slave trade ineffective?
Slaves were needed by the plantation owners.
Who lead the slave revolt against plantation owners in Virginia?
john brown
Were plantation owners afraid that slaves were using instruments to celebrate when a slave escaped?
no
How did black slaves obtain the surname mccoy?
From the Scottish plantation (and slave) owners.
Why were rules needed on a slave plantation?
To keep it in order.
