![]() ![]() To meet the need, wealthy planters turned to traders, who imported ever more human chattel to the colonies, the vast majority from West Africa. With ideal climate and available land, property owners in the southern colonies began establishing plantation farms for cash crops like rice, tobacco and sugar cane-enterprises that required increasing amounts of labor. As the number of European laborers coming to the colonies dwindled, enslaving Africans became more widely acceptable. During this time, slavery had become a morally, legally and socially acceptable institution in the colonies. In exchange for their work, they received food and shelter, a rudimentary education and sometimes a trade.īy 1680, the British economy improved and more jobs became available in Britain. Most workers were poor, unemployed laborers from Europe who, like others, had traveled to North America for a new life. For much of the 1600s, the American colonies operated as agricultural economies, driven largely by indentured servitude. ![]() Enslaved workers leaving the fields with baskets of cotton An Economy Built on Slaveryīuilding a commercial enterprise out of the wilderness required labor and lots of it. ![]()
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