Question

How did the majority of African slaves help the colonial American economy? By doing manual labor that increased the profit of cash crops grown on plantations By performing domestic work that allowed families to spend more time subsistence farming By providing a way for tax collectors to calculate taxes owed by landowners By serving as sailors on trade ships connecting continents

Answer 1

Seems to me like it's the first option. By doing manual labor that increased the profit of cash crops grown on plantations.

Answer 2

The correct answer is A) By doing manual labor that increased the profit of cash crops grown on plantations.

The majority of African slaves helped the colonial American economy by doing manual labor that increased the profit of cash crops grown on plantations.

The slave trade sent slaves from Africa to America where they were sold. Many colonies based its economy on slavery to produce the number of crash crops needed in the southern plantations to be exported to Europe. For instance, tobacco was the most important cash crop in the colony of Jamestown, Virginia. The middle colonies of New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Delaware successfully grew many crops. They were considered the "breadbasket" of America.