Because the slaves were virgins like you ha ha "tag your it"
why are there so many slaves?
You didn't have to pay slaves, so the cost of labor was lower.
Slaver in England's North American Colonies was first used on a large scale in the tobacco industry of Virginia. Later on, it was discovered that cotton could be grown in the South, so slaves were then needed in the South.
because of the military.
they would be sold at auction, almost like animals. then would go off to live with their so called owner
He own a plantation and was from Virginia. He owned slaves. For him, the issue was States rights for the ability to own slaves and Virginia was confederate so he went with his state.
Western Virginia was very different from Virginia they were against slavery ,on October 16, john brown led araid at Harper ferry and some followers captured the united states arsenal, Harper ferry is were they make guns an stored them .Brown planned on giving these guns to the slaves in Virginia and Maryland so the slaves will have freedom. so Virginia had no slaves and Virginia was mad and Virginia and Western was spited up and it became west Virginia and was 35th state.:)
Virginia had many plantations, like most of the southern states. The plantation owners used slaves to farm their land. When the cotton gin was created and other agricultural machines, the need for slaves increased because the machines refined cotton very fast. They needed more slaves to pick cotton faster to get more profit
why are there so many slaves?
yes because people had lots of land to farm on so they used servents to do the work on the farms
In ancient Greece they used war slaves called "Helots". these slaves were sometimes set free after working for so many years. basically like POW's that are slaves.
Many of the Africans taken to the Americas as slaves were Muslims, so Muslims can be (or at least were) slaves.
You didn't have to pay slaves, so the cost of labor was lower.
She led so many slaves to freedom that she became known as the Moses of her people.
The European slave traders brought slaves to the New World from Africa. So many native Americans had died of smallpox that they couldn't be used for labor.
There were so many slaves packed on board a ship; The slave dealers wanted to sell as many as possible for more money.
because they were running low on servants so they used slaves to do all their work.