Because the colonists figured out that by using cheap human labor, they could make more income from cash crops such as tobacco and rice.
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In terms of New World colonies, slavery was many times looked upon as natural inasmuch as slavery was a wold wide problem for most of the history on humankind. In Colonial America, slaves in North America arrived in the English colony of Jamestown in 1620. As the British colonies expanded in North America, slavery began to be abolished in the Northern colonies, however, in the Southern colonies it was supported under British and later US law.
The "plantation colonies" allowed slavery. Those colonies were Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and georgia.
Slavery in the southern colonies increased after the invention of the cotton gin. This invention made plantation agriculture extremely lucrative; slavery was abolished in 1865.
Slavery in the United States is generally traced to 1620 and the Jamestown Colony in Virginia. At that time, slavery was an accepted practice in most of the world, including most of Africa.
Slavery began in the colonies in 1619 and Charleston South Carolina became the largest slave market in the south.
Slaves were brought to Jamestown in Virginia by Dutch slave traders in 1619. This was the beginning of slavery in the American colonies.
Slavery stated in Jamestown in 1620.
The Dutch introduced the first African slaves to Jamestown in 1619. This event marked the beginning of slavery in the English colonies in North America.
By everyone wanting free labor.
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In terms of New World colonies, slavery was many times looked upon as natural inasmuch as slavery was a wold wide problem for most of the history on humankind. In Colonial America, slaves in North America arrived in the English colony of Jamestown in 1620. As the British colonies expanded in North America, slavery began to be abolished in the Northern colonies, however, in the Southern colonies it was supported under British and later US law.
Slavery arrived in the colonies in 1619 so the colonies started with slavery.
No, only in the south colonies. The north colonies were against slavery. There were few in the north colonies.
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The South Colonies. :)