The colonists set aside the fundamental value of human rights and equality when they participated in the slave trade. By treating enslaved individuals as property rather than acknowledging their humanity, the colonists contradicted the principles of liberty and justice that they espoused in their quest for independence. This moral hypocrisy highlighted a significant contradiction in the founding ideals of the nation.
They used slave labor to produce cash crops.
slave labor was more important
The slave trade was important in Ephesus
Slave songs were not more important than the Civil War. They brought hymns of freedom to the troops of the North and the South.
The slave trade increased after Bacon's Rebellion because then the colonists realized that indentured servants were very radical and not worth the risk. Also, at that time, the life expectancy of a slave had gone up so slaves were a better investment. The year of Bacon's Rebellion is 1676.
In the south, the colonies had plantations. Mainly cotton. They used slaves for free labor, so they would make more money. That way, they wouldn't need to pay them.
They used slave labor to produce cash crops.
For the money and the slave labor; the same reason everyone else participated in the slave trade.
They used slave labor to produce cash crops.
They used slave labor to produce cash crops.
They used slave labor to produce cash crops.
They used slave labor to produce cash crops.
The colonists were all to to blame for the slave trade
because when the atlantic slave trade was around anerica needed slaves to help with work
They actually thought that the slaves were of less value than themselves. They were treated as a commodity that provided cheap labor... Actually worse than cheap it was totally free. It's all about the money, Selfish Right?
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The king owned the colonists, so... The king owned the first colonist that bought a slave.