Help me to understand this Hisory question about slave labor please...(for a school essay)?

Question

"Discuss why the American colonies created a thriving slave labor market at a time (1690- 1760) when slavery had almost enirely died out in Europe?"

I understand the question but i just dont seem to be going deep enough...i need more detail...i know why but i cant put it into words...

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Answer 1

There was more large scale agriculture going on in the colonies and many many field hands were needed to work in the fields.

Colonist at first tried to enslave the natives to work in the fields but it was too easy for them to escape and blend in with the other Indians.

Next indentured servants were tried. But after so many years after they had paid their debt they were free.

African slaves could not blend into the local tribes or population and stood out if they ran away. Once you bought a slave, slave owners could own the children of their slaves. In fact slaves were bred to produce more children. That way the slave owners had a self replicating labor force.

Answer 2

i think that slavery continues today to be a very popular but mistaken happiness strategy

i dont think slavery died out in reality in europe then or even now - only in name - colonial exploitation and slave labour continue today - under nicer names - supposedly independent nations are economically under the thumb of the first world - the third world is giving the first world $200 billion a year more than we are giving them - although the economy of africa has been shrunk to smaller than italy's -

so the answer to your question is: slavery has been thriving for millenia - and no sign of humans seeing that it causes everyone extreme misery - the golden rule is an iron rule: injury causes equal and opposite injury - grabbing just makes everyone a grabber, and all life an endless grabbing and regrabbing

slavery is thriving because people continue to be mistaken that it is good, beneficial, advantageous

why is the world a slave economy today?

90% of workers are paid 10th - 1000th of what they earn by their labour

1% get 90% of world income - US$70 trillion a year - US$70,000 per family

ie, every family working average hard creates US$75,000 a year of wealth by their work - and 90% get US$7500 - US$75 a year - from full slavery to starvation slavery

the world is a southern plantation

1% get 90% of world income - and do less than 1% of the work - ie, they steal US$70 trillion a year - and thus cause all the fighting

how very very easy it is for people to be blind - and blindness is all it takes for evil to exist

you figure: if this were true, i would have heard about it - but what if everyone is hiding from the terribly unflattering truth? - doesnt it make sense that everyone is resistant to facing the fact they are making a mistake?

doesnt everyone admit that 'the rich get richer, etc'? - and if you think about it, doesnt that mean that injustice ie theft is happening - doesnt it mean that pay per unit of work is spreading? - isnt justice equal pay for equal work? - isnt equality absence of privilege? - isnt equality all equal work is paid equally, no special treatment for anyone? -

what is pay from 1000th to a million times average hourly pay except privilege, injustice, theft, slavery?

a billion times as much for the same amount of work!

a billionth as much for the same amount of work!

slavery exists because there are people who believe it is a happiness strategy - that you can be happy with slaves - it is the general human opinion - they forget that the robbed get angry, attack, undermine, rob back - endlessly, relentlessly, ruining the quality of life of the slavers, till they get fairshares

slavery is not a happiness strategy - but many think it is - that is why there is so much misery and violence - error - blindness - refusal to face the fact we are slavers - refusal to see that slavery is not a happiness strategy, it is a misery strategy

we are so stubborn, so blind! - and so vastly unnecessarily miserable

see my other answers for more happiness strategy

Answer 3

You could give more detail by talking about why slavery was not big in Europe.