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SLAVES AND SUGAR PLANTATIONS
Slaves were needed to harvest the crops in the sugar plantations. They were needed for affordable labor, but only because they were also producers of children, who became new slaves. So in addition to revenue from cotton and sugar, the slaveowners also received revenue from the sale of slaves, especially after the importation of new slaves was prohibited.
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What were the british sugar colonies where plantations and slavery took root?
Jamaica was a large sugar producer during the sugar trade, and there were thousands of African slaves there to work on the plantations.
Why were the slaves brought to the New World in the first place?
slaves were brought to the new world in the first place because the Europeans had found these lands and wanted to plant sugar canes,tobacco,and later on cotton and rice and needed people to work on the plantations so they went to Africa and brought the Africans to work on the plantations as slaves.
What invention led to an increasein numbers of slaves who worked on plantations?
Because they needed more slaves to pick cotton because the machines that took the seeds out
Why did the north not want to keep the slaves?
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.
How did the slaves get on the plantations?
Many were brought from Africa and sold at slave auctions. Others were born to slaves already on the plantations.
