I have to do a summer assignment and one of the question's is really hard!?

Question

The question is how did economic and geographic factors shape the growth of slavery in the colonies from 1607-1760??? CAN SOMEBODY HELP ME!

Answer 1

economic: remember supply and demand, and u will Always have a basic understanding of economics. for example, there was demand for Labor...therefore, they went to great lengths to find people, peasants, eventually slaves, pretty much anyone, in order to fulfill that demand. therefore, the slaves, etc, were the supply, and the demand was the need for labor intensive workers.

geographic: since i'm not familiar w/ the time period, i'm just gonna go w/ my minimal knowledge. i'm assuming there were not many people willing or able to do labor intensive jobs; therefore, they had to go where they could find "slaves.". which is why they went to different countries and STOLE them. they completely uprooted people from their own country and brought them to the US, in order to supply the demand. i also recall they had a lot of Irish immigrants who were slaves as well...so whoever was in the area geographically. and when that supply ended, they had to go to, say Africa and China to steal people.

hope that helps.. i dunno i didn't learn much i guess! :)

Answer 2

Slavery is free labor. No one had to pay these people to work. Large farms and plantations could turn a bigger profit since landowners didn't have to worry about paying workers' wages. Also, the eastern half of the country was great farmland, especially in the southeastern half where a warmer climate and flatter land allowed for longer growing seasons and better and larger fields. People saw the so-called advantages of having workers that did not have to be paid, so there was an increased demand for slaves. I read somewhere that the population in the New World was about 25% non-slave and 75% slave. Try this URL for more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Colonial_America

Answer 3

Well if I were you I'd talk about how in the south there were lot's of plantations and fields that required hard labor. In the north there weren't as many of these which is a big reason why there was slavery in the south mostly and the north was opposed to it.

That would be economic since there were plantations down South.

Geographically the south's weather made it so that plants would grow better.

Hope that helped

Answer 4

Check out a book/article on Eli Whitney--the invention of the cotton gin made cotton go from a crop that could only be grown in a very few places to a crop that could be grown all over the south--but somebody had to pick it. (His work in standardizing munitions manufacturing also contributed to the civil war, but that wasn't part of the question.)

Also, thinking about this question from a colonial/early american mindset is important--we think differently in modern America. Remember that this was just after the days of imperialism, where it was acceptable (and even considered good and moral, by logic that seems twisted today) to conquer people militarily and steal their resources.

Answer 5

Slavery was needed anywhere there was a profit to be made.
SEAPORTS- the harbor areas, seaports where unloading and loading the ships was a daily chore.
FARMS- planting, seeding and all other farm work, tending cattle, etc.
Gambling houses, whore houses, train stations, cleaning, cooking, caring for children of rich estate owners, etc.
Then out west, slaves were used for laying train track lines. So much, yet so little do we know. Use the web to get more info, and you will "A" this paper.

Answer 6

i can tell u. slaves which are usually Africans are very poor so they can be paid very little sums of money and merchants or treaders were greedy. concerning geographical factors African are used to high temperature and they have a well built bodies so the European preferred slaves a they are hard working , cheap and can stand hot weather they used them in the colonies in planting crops.

Answer 7

hot and enervating climate,low level of wages,behavior of the employer etc

Answer 8

i don't know