What were 3 causes for slavery?
- People need other people to do there work
- People were lazy and wanted other people to do there work
- If you had a lot of slaves you looked rich
What did white slave owners use their slaves for? Why?
They used them to farm and sometimes build things. Because they didn’t want to work and they needed to raise a family!
What crops did slaves harvest? Why these crops?
Tobacco, wheat and cotton. Wheat to make bread and other foods with wheat. Cotton for clothes.
Where were most slaves from? Why?
Africa, they didn’t have as much as Europeans so it was easy to dominate them.
Why did so many slaves move to the colonies? Was this their choice? Explain.
To help people here farm and help them make things. It wasn’t there choice, they got captured and were crammed in to boats to colonies.
Why were there so many slaves in the colonies?
They got captured, even though most died on the ships they took so many of them that they still got many of them.