Jamestown: Slavery In The New World

England was the first country to compete against Spain about the New World in 1588. Later Queen Elizabeth realized that providing for the colonies in the new world was very expensive and stopped doing so. After Queen Elizabeth’s death in 1603, his son, King James the 1st gave permission for the establishments of colonies in Virginia and created organized companies. When Jamestown was first established in Virginia 1607, at first, the colony failed due to lack of skills that were necessary for human survival which more than half of the settlers did not make it alive. Between 1607 and 1622, out of six thousand settlers about less than two thousand survived. Local Indians helped out the settlers by providing them with food and teaching them how to survive and grow crops. After backstabbing the Indians and taking whatever they wanted, in 1622 the …show more content…
African slavery was necessary in the early seventeenth century for the European settlers in the new world. In North America, African slavery was taken into account because it was way cheaper and they were better at working in plantations than indentured servants. These slaves worked on plantations of tobacco and indigo. In the eighteenth century more or less about six million African slaves arrived to the New World. They were restrained from learning to write or read. European slavery compared to African slavery was way less, millions less.
The Plymouth colony was more industrialized and did not rely much on slave labor, unlike the south which everything was about labor work. Either way, slave labor depended on the whole nations economic needs. In the south slaves would work on tobacco and cotton, thus making a lot of money for the southern colonies. The south would trade their crops with the northern colonies and overseas and many things relied on their work. Both the north and the south benefited greatly from African