Slavery in the Southern settlements benefited the economy and provided the cheapest and most expedient way to meet the demand for labor in agriculture more significantly than the New England colonies.
During the mid-seventeen century, the percentage of slavery in the South was a very minor need to sustain economic life. The next century, “Slavery would more; and more come to provide the great source of agriculture labor that white immigration, free or indentured, could no longer till, bringing with it decisive changes for every aspect of American history, all rooted in the need to sustain and accelerate the growing currents of commercial life” (Heilbroner 43). As a result of the reduced emigration, servants had disappeared from most Chesapeake homes. Confronted with a diminished supply of white laborers, the Chesapeake planters gradually turned to …show more content…
For instance, the English could not successful grow rice in South Carolina’s swampy lowlands. It was the African’s technique that helped them make excessive amounts of profit. Due to Southern agriculture on fertile soil and long planting seasons, white inhabitants depended on the African slaves for intensive labor in large plantations. Tobacco, though, was where the money was. The lack of mills or sophisticated engineering system made cultivating tobacco even harder for the white inhabitants. As a result, most of the colonists made slaves work in the fields for multiple hours a day. “By increasing the capital requirements of tobacco cultivation, slavery gave competitive advantages to the already wealthy planters” (Taylor 157). Which discouraged smaller planters of New England, who heavily relied on the labor from their own families. The increase in harvesting cash crops, made the dependence on slavery greater. Thus, the demands for black slaves helped expand the transatlantic slave trade (and blacks began to
During the mid-seventeen century, the percentage of slavery in the South was a very minor need to sustain economic life. The next century, “Slavery would more; and more come to provide the great source of agriculture labor that white immigration, free or indentured, could no longer till, bringing with it decisive changes for every aspect of American history, all rooted in the need to sustain and accelerate the growing currents of commercial life” (Heilbroner 43). As a result of the reduced emigration, servants had disappeared from most Chesapeake homes. Confronted with a diminished supply of white laborers, the Chesapeake planters gradually turned to …show more content…
For instance, the English could not successful grow rice in South Carolina’s swampy lowlands. It was the African’s technique that helped them make excessive amounts of profit. Due to Southern agriculture on fertile soil and long planting seasons, white inhabitants depended on the African slaves for intensive labor in large plantations. Tobacco, though, was where the money was. The lack of mills or sophisticated engineering system made cultivating tobacco even harder for the white inhabitants. As a result, most of the colonists made slaves work in the fields for multiple hours a day. “By increasing the capital requirements of tobacco cultivation, slavery gave competitive advantages to the already wealthy planters” (Taylor 157). Which discouraged smaller planters of New England, who heavily relied on the labor from their own families. The increase in harvesting cash crops, made the dependence on slavery greater. Thus, the demands for black slaves helped expand the transatlantic slave trade (and blacks began to