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Yes. The agricultural economy of the deep South of America needed free labour in order to survive. Rich and greedy people owned large areas of land but did not want to work hard to farm their lands.
In ancient France the Catholic Church owned about a third of the country and shamelessly believed in ownership of many slaves.
In ancient history victors of battles took prisoners to be used as slaves. Greeks and Roman societies are a good example of popularity of slave labour.
The history of slave trade in Asia, Europe and North Africa is well-known.
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Why did the British want to take over the slave trade in the late 17th century?
Because they needed labor for their new colonies in the Americas
Who was a presidential candidate that opposed slavery but promised not to abolish it?
Abraham Lincoln, he didnt want to end it, but then again he just didnt want it to spread any further west than it had, for the fact that colonists did not want there agriculture and industry to soley depend upon slave labor.
Why did the akwamu nation enter the slave trade?
because they want to be rich and they had no ideal slave.
Did the south approve of the northwest ordinance?
Though the Northwest Ordinance prohibited slavery in the states around the Great Lakes, the southern states approved of it. They did not want the northwestern states to become a competitor in the tobacco trade. At the time, tobacco cultivation was extremely labor intensive and was only profitable with slave labor.
What was the fight between slave and non-slave states?
it was the fight between the state who wanted slavery and the state who didn't want slavery.
Which southern state seceded but some of its counties didn't want it to and later formed another state?
The western counties of Virginia broke away, and formed West Virginia.
Why did slave owners not want to give up slaves?
Because to them, slaves were cheap, efficient labor.
Why did Europeans want slave?
because they were to lasy to do it them self ;also, because they wanted them to work there sugar plantation and it was cheaper with slave labor
Why did Europeans want slave labor?
It was to a cheap source of manpower that the Europeans couldn't satify in the European Colonies in America.
Who needs slave labor?
Slave labor has traditionally been used by more powerful societies to perform tasks their own people don't want to perform. Slavery was common in ancient Rome, for example, and in the US South. Most slave owners were wealthy people who needed the slaves for manual labor such as working in the field or in a mine.
Why did the British want to take over the slave trade in the late 17th century?
Because they needed labor for their new colonies in the Americas
How did West Virginia join Union?
They did not want to have slavery in the western parts of Virginia, so these western counties broke off to form another state so they could let Virginia join the confederacy and they join the Union
Which counties in Mississippi are dry counties?
Like to know what are the dry counties are ! I want to know which counties other than Tate are dry !
Why was the slave labor important to the Spanish?
they didn't want to do the hard work for sugar productions cause they had no need to and dif they lost the slaves then they would have to do the hard work.
Why did new californians who were northerners exclude all blacks in the state constitution?
Northerners did not want to compete for gold with slaveholders using slave labor or with free blacks.
How old are you when you become a slave?
When a female slave gave birth to a child, it was also considered the property of her master. The slave children were separated from their mothers minutes after birth and taken to live with a "grandmother," usually an old, female slave who couldn't work in the fields or in the plantation house anymore. Slave children usually didn't start actual slave labor until they were 10 or older, but their years between birth and then weren't pleasant because they were given little food and even less clothing because the master didn't want to waste money on a slave that wasn't producing labor yet.
Did the south want cheap western land?
In the years leading up to the American Civil War, both Southerners and Northerners sought cheap, if also usable, land in the West. For the South more generally, however, the key was finding tillable soil that could be used to grow cotton -- and be worked with slave labor.
