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American Slave, merchant seaman, and dockworker, Crispus Attucks, was born in 1723 and passed away on March 5th, 1770. He is known to be the first African American casualty of the American Revolution, when he was shot and killed in what later became known as the Boston Massacre.
Indentured servants were the first source, but slaves soon replaced them. The first slave arrived in 1619.
It used slave labor to grow cash crops for the world market.
Any person sold or brought, as property. Uaually an American slave would be African descent.
slave trading
Possibly the dependency of slave labor for cotton production that was in high demand. It was cheep and demand was high.
growing rice required much labor,so the demand for slaves increased.
growing rice required much labor,so the demand for slaves increased.
growing rice required much labor,so the demand for slaves increased.
growing rice required much labor,so the demand for slaves increased.
In the American colonies growing cotton depended on slave labor
corn
They didn't have enough people to work for them on their land.
Slaves were sold in the South by owners in the border states.
Tobacco could not be profitably grown in the American colonies at small scale on family farms. Successful cultivated required large amounts of cheap, labor thereby creating demand for slave labor.
Phyllis Wheatley
he was a slave but then fought in the american revolution