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They were different and had no known rights, and the white people did not want to work on their own plantations or hire other white people.
Because of the fact that the black didn't have any known rights in America, it was easy to force them to work there without need to pay them.
It was, however, punishable to force a white person to work on your plantation without giving him money for it.

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Slaves were needed to work on plantations because plantation owners required a large, cheap labor force to cultivate and harvest cash crops like cotton, tobacco, and sugar for profit. Slavery provided a source of forced labor that was seen as essential for the economic success of plantations in the Americas.

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