Question

Please help anyone

1. Why did slavery start in the colonies?

2. How were slaves brought to the colonies?

3. What types of jobs did slaves do in each colonial region?

4. Why were the jobs in each region different?

5. Why were slaves important to the colonial economy?

6. What difficulties did slaves face?

7. What alternative to slavery do you think the colonists could have used to solve the labor shortage?

Answer 1

1. Slavery started in the colonies because the colonists needed cheap labor to grow the economy quickly so they could export things to England and other places.

2, They were brought here on ships from Africa

3, The jobs they had were usually house work or field work depending on where they were in the country.

4. They were different because there are different climate in the different parts of the country

5. Slaves were important because the government made money off of slave trading. They put a tax on it.

6. Some of the difficulties slaves faced were being treated badly, working long hours, being separated from their families.

7. The alternative to slave labor was to let the woman go to work. They were able to work.