This system benefitted everyone involved except the slaves who were sold. The African chiefs used this as a way of winning wars against enemy tribes by effectively getting rid of their problem. When these slaves were put onto ships …show more content…
They were at war with them over land, and I do not think at any point the Indians would have allowed themselves to be captured and used as a labor force. There was no way to control the Indians, as they had the advantage of knowing the area and would have just escaped and disappeared. Most likely leaving quite a few dead colonists on their way out.
The southern colonies were a lot wilder and open than the northern colonies during this period. I think religion was present just as much in the southern, but they were not as strict in a religious sense. I know the northern colonies had servants, but the people considered themselves too civilized to own another person. The sheer size of the southern plantations, had to have an enormous work force to run it. So paying freemen or trying to use indentured servants would not have been profitable.
The fact that slaves were purchased cheap and they did not have to be paid was one the biggest factors in this system. Slaves were considered possessions and were never going to be required to be freed from service. The children of slaves became the property of the slave owners, so they did not even have to be purchased. There were no rules about owning a slave, they did not have to provide them with anything. If they wanted to make them work from sunup to sundown, seven days a week they could. There were no repercussions if a slave died, so if the owners worked them to death, they just went on about their