If you mean slaves in the US, the answer is Africa.
Because of the vast amount that needed to be done around the plantations, households, roman style villas, and because owning slaves was a sign of wealth
Back then, slaves were vital in the southern economy. In order to harvest the massive plantations they had, slaves were the most efficient way. They worked for free! Plus, many people didn't think that slaves were people nor should they have rights. If slavery became illegal, they would need to get regular jobs for pay like all other people do. Freeing the slaves would also cause big issues for landowners. Not everybody could afford to hire help on their plantations.
White people have been slaves, as have been black people, yellow people, and red people. Slaves have come in all types of colors, and both genders; male and female. People of all ages, young and old, have been slaves.
Yeoman farmers didn't own slaves and they made up the largest group of whites in the south.
Slaves could do all the work that they did not wanna do for them. They were also very cheap so more people decided to buy them.
Slaves weren't needed. The reasons slaves were used in the south they had large plantations that needed people to work, plant, pick cotton, and do other things. The economy between the south and the north was totally different.
Slaves were used in the cotton industry. The South made a fortune off of their slaves. After the cotton gin (which removed seeds from cotton) was invented, the South made a great deal of money off of their slaves. Slaves were treated like farm animals and beasts of burden. Not as people. Freeing the slaves would have meant giving up a lot of money, and the South did not want to lose such a valuable resource. Of course, as a result of the Civil War to keep the country united and to free Human slaves, the South paid dearly for keeping people in bondage.
Because the south wanted slaves and the North did not want slaves.
they wanted to have slaves
Because the south wanted slaves and the North did not want slaves.
Out of the 9 million people in the Confederacy, 3.5 million of them were slaves.
No actually only a small amount of people actually did own slaves but those who did ran huge plantations, also the amount of people that owned slaves also greatly increased after the invention of the cotton gin which made cotton the main cash crop in the south causing many farmers to want to buy slaves.
Slave owners treated slaves more harshly .
rich people or slaves
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