AAA 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Fugitive Slave Clause, Indentured Servant, William Lloyd Garrison
25 Mar 2015
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When examining the american slave trade, a why must first be determined. There are two schools of thought on this topic. The first is purely racial - that the color of skin of the african made him a target for the european traders. The other is that race had little to do with the beginning of the trade, but that pure economics dictated the source. Race, when it eventually did become a factor, came afterwards. Initial colonization of the new world by england came in the caribbean, such as on st. kitts, and in virginia. The primary concern of the english in the use of these lands was as a source of income. Tobacco was discovered and became wildly popular, and its cultivation became a priority. Tobacco agriculture requires lots and lots of land, and, in turn, lots of labor to work the land. The first workers were recruited servants from england itself.
