Slavery was a cheaper form of labor, you would have to pay a starting fee of around $7,500 (Doc. I), but they would not be paid for the rest of their lives. Slaves didn’t have rights, so they could be put to work in the most dangerous places and would be worked until they either died of exhaustion or had ligaments torn off by the machine (Doc G). The European business owners knew that with more workers, more work gets done faster; therefore, as the population of slaves rises the tons of sugar produced rises, in Saint-Domingue, between 1764 and 1791 the slave population increased from 206,000 to 480,000. Additionally the tons of sugar produced annually rose from 60,000 to 78,696 (Doc C). As more slaves were bought, more sugar was produced, allowing more to be
Slavery was a cheaper form of labor, you would have to pay a starting fee of around $7,500 (Doc. I), but they would not be paid for the rest of their lives. Slaves didn’t have rights, so they could be put to work in the most dangerous places and would be worked until they either died of exhaustion or had ligaments torn off by the machine (Doc G). The European business owners knew that with more workers, more work gets done faster; therefore, as the population of slaves rises the tons of sugar produced rises, in Saint-Domingue, between 1764 and 1791 the slave population increased from 206,000 to 480,000. Additionally the tons of sugar produced annually rose from 60,000 to 78,696 (Doc C). As more slaves were bought, more sugar was produced, allowing more to be