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Growth of American Slavery
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... To understand the development of slavery, it is necessary to realize that North America was always on the fringes of the immense slave trade. The long painful history of black slavery in North America began with the 15th century interaction between Europeans and African tribes. ... Three distinctive systems of slavery emerged in the American colonies. In Maryland and Virginia, slavery was widely used in raising tobacco and corn and worked under the "gang" system. ... In the North, slavery was concentrated on Long Island and in southern Rhode Island and New Jersey, where most slaves were engaged in farming and stock raising for the West Indies or were household servants for the urban elite.
Slavery existed in New England in its most humane form. Perhaps its mild nature stemmed from the fact that New England had no real need for the institution of slavery because there were no cash crops that demanded a massive labor force. Because New England had a limited use for slaves as laborers, New England’s role in the proliferation of slavery in the America’s was as a slave trader.
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Title: Growth of American Slavery
Words: 811
Rating: None
Pages: 3.2
submitted by: keinoson
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