Chesapeake Vs Carolina Essay

At the start of America, there were many colonies that helped develop what our country is today. The three colonies that I believe were the most valuable are the Chesapeake, the New England, and the Carolina. Between these three colonies, there are similarities and differences in their slavery and economy. For the Chesapeake colony, most of their labor was done by indentured servants, or workers that would work under contract with their owners. In fact, they made of three-fourths of the emigrants (90,000-120,000) in the 1650s .This was mainly because there was a large demand of tobacco, and because there was an abundance of work for too little people. They were transported by force, and people would claim that they would be treated like orphans or criminals before 1920. Although a huge portion of them were servants by force, a large number of them were volunteers as well. They would volunteer mainly because …show more content…
They became the colony that was the king of rice just like the Chesapeake with tobacco. In fact, the annual rice exports was 400,000 pounds in 1700 and by 1740 became 43 million. The Carolina’s workforce came from a majority of slaves instead of indentured servants unlike the Chesapeake. Their slaves made out about twenty-five percent of their population. The Carolians tried to turn the table on the Native Americans by saying that enslavement was a good thing. They claimed that it spared captives their life and gave them a taste of of Christian civilization. One thing the Carolinians did was trade Indian captives for African slaves, which meant that they believed African slaves were more efficient like the Chesapeake and New England. Of course the more rice that was imported, the more slaves that were imported. At first, slave owners didn’t know how to efficiently use their slaves. However, once they found out the proper way, money and wealth