Blacks who did not have jobs were made to serve time as forced laborers. /D
To Provide inexpensive labor on Large Plantations!
Could the colonies labor problem have been solved without slavery?
to have free labor
to provide labor for the cotton industry
Slavery ended legally in 1865. But today we still have slavery through sex trafficking, bonded labor, forced labor , or human trafficking
The plantation needed a source of inexpensive labor.
To Provide inexpensive labor on Large Plantations!
depended on reliable and inexpensive source of labor
Slavery was a solution, it was a very inexpensive form of labor. And the South was cash starved.
Slavery existed but indentured servitude was the primary source.
Blacks who did not have jobs were made to serve time as forced laborers. --APEX
Blacks who did not have jobs were made to serve time as forced laborers.
Slavery made the plantation owners rich. Africans were a great source of cheap labor. However they were treated horribly.http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ism/slavery/archaeology/caribbean/
Originally slavery was a cheap labor source for the 1st crop, rice, in South Carolina. When cotton became a major crop across the south of the U.S., more cheap labor was required.
Contrary to popular belief, race was NOT the dermining factor of slavery. Slavery begun more as a means of economic benefit, than a system in which whites could feel superior over blacks. The economy of America was deeply dependent on this source of forced, extremely inexpensive labor. Property holders needed someone to work their lands, but they also needed to maximize their production and profit. It was ideal for them to have slaves who required so little to live, yet did so much work. It was not until the South needed a justification for this forced labor that they begun the discussion of race as a factor and reason for slavery.
Many plantation owners in the South moved toward a one crop economy (cotton) and needed a cheaper labor source than the Northern idea of white labor.
African slaves were the cheapest available labor source to cultivate and produce sugar for the European market.