HST 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Metacomet, Interracial Marriage, Cash Crop
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There was a continued need to deal with native populations, they were a constant threat into the. The caribbean, testing ground for the slave system. Sugar cane became the most labor needed crop, beginning the slaves to farm it, very. Most of the early trade sent africans directly to south and central american and the. The north american colonies initially got slaves from the caribbean. 5-8 years of good slave labor, they would eventually work to death. Slave owners increased their labor force by purchasing more slaves not be encouraging slaves to raise families. A society for which slavery is one of many forms of labor. Slave holders expected that the enslaved didn"t want to be slaves. They could not necessarily count of them to help fend off native american attacks. Society in which slavery is the dominate form of labor. Exclusively use slave labor in their economies. Sugar cane and the nature of caribbean slavery.
