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Time Machine! Imagine a time machine transported you to a Southern plantation in the year 1790. Upon your return, your teacher asks you to make a presentation to your classmates about your travel back in time. Your task is to answer questions from your classmates. Remember to select each tab below so you do not miss any necessary information. Part One Part Two Part One: Respond to each question below in your own words and in complete sentences. For each response you must include one image that helps support your answer. Why did slavery start in the colonies? How were slaves brought to the colonies? What types of jobs did slaves do in each colonial region: New England, Middle and the South? Why were the jobs in each region different? Why were slaves important to the colonial economy?

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The colony was founded mainly by planters from the overpopulated English sugar island of Barbados, who brought relatively large numbers of African slaves from that island to establish new plantations. To meet agricultural labor needs, colonists also practiced Indian slavery for some time.

Explanation: Slaves included captives from wars and slave raids; captives bartered from other tribes, sometimes at great distances; children sold by their parents during famines; and men and women who staked themselves in gambling when they had nothing else, which put them into servitude in some cases for life.

Although slavery ended earlier in the North than in the South (which would keep Lacking large-scale plantations, New England did not have the same level of differently in New England than in the middle and southern colonies was Why were the jobs in each region different

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