How Did Economic Geographic And Social Factors Encourage Growth Of Slavery
how did economic geographic and social factors encourage the growth of slavery
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economic: indentured servants were becoming very inconvienent at the time. afterall, they only worked for a certain amount of time and then you had to free/reward them. socially: uprisings of white servants worried plantation owners geographically: does triangular trade ring a bell? the south was right on the way from the voyage thats all i can really say. hopefully you can elaborate on them. it's not too hard of a topic, good luck!
Heres the first part of my essay
The growth of slavery became intertwined in the life of the southern colonies in the 17th century and early and mid 18th century. Slavery …show more content…
Traders came to Southern ports (like Charleston, SC) to sell their human cargo …which was often first ‘sorted’ at a port in the West Indies. • Servitude is NOT the same as slavery. Don’t use the terms interchangeably. Slavery implies a sense of permanency & ownership that servitude does not. There were white indentured servants, but not white slaves. • Slaves weren’t cheap & slaveowners DID care if slaves died. Slaveowners took basic (minimal!) care of slaves because if the slaves died then owners would lose their investment. Slaves became cheapER, but not cheap; MORE affordable for the wealthy, but NOT affordable (only the very wealthy southerners could afford slaves). • The headright system was NOT an indentured servitude system, but a land distribution system established in early colonial VA & MD (remember MD, no one wrote of MD as an example of a southern colony Λ) in order to bring more land into production so that the colonies would make a greater profit. The headright system wasn’t linked to
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economic: indentured servants were becoming very inconvienent at the time. afterall, they only worked for a certain amount of time and then you had to free/reward them. socially: uprisings of white servants worried plantation owners geographically: does triangular trade ring a bell? the south was right on the way from the voyage thats all i can really say. hopefully you can elaborate on them. it's not too hard of a topic, good luck!
Heres the first part of my essay
The growth of slavery became intertwined in the life of the southern colonies in the 17th century and early and mid 18th century. Slavery …show more content…
Traders came to Southern ports (like Charleston, SC) to sell their human cargo …which was often first ‘sorted’ at a port in the West Indies. • Servitude is NOT the same as slavery. Don’t use the terms interchangeably. Slavery implies a sense of permanency & ownership that servitude does not. There were white indentured servants, but not white slaves. • Slaves weren’t cheap & slaveowners DID care if slaves died. Slaveowners took basic (minimal!) care of slaves because if the slaves died then owners would lose their investment. Slaves became cheapER, but not cheap; MORE affordable for the wealthy, but NOT affordable (only the very wealthy southerners could afford slaves). • The headright system was NOT an indentured servitude system, but a land distribution system established in early colonial VA & MD (remember MD, no one wrote of MD as an example of a southern colony Λ) in order to bring more land into production so that the colonies would make a greater profit. The headright system wasn’t linked to