Conditions Of The Slaves As They Were Brought To America And Why Slavery Thrived In The South
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Conditions of the Slaves As They Were Brought to America and Why Slavery
Discuss the conditions under which slaves were brought to America. Why
does this institution thrive more in the south than in the other colonies?
Slavery existed in all of the English colonies in America. For
land owners, sl ....
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.... African slaves came to Virginia in 1619 and were freed
after a term of servitude. By 1660 some slaves were serving for life. And
by 1700 Africans were arriving in the colonies in huge amounts.
Most Africans came from the western coast and western Africa. They
came from many different ethnic groups and therefore spoke different
languages, which made it very hard for the Africans to communicate with one
another. Their only way of communication was a common music stile which
they all shar ....
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