Why did America have to have slaves in order for this country to develop?

Answer 1

cause the white man are to lazy to do their own work?

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i'm not really sure.. i think they wanted them to do the work they didn't have time to do or didn't want to do

Answer 2

America's culture at the time of slavery was a culture that depended heavily on farming and natural resources. American land owners paid their landworks at first (indentured servants) until the introduction of slavery came to the carribean islands. Farmers found that buying slaves in the market was less cost-effective and the instituion of slavery came to America. The hard work of slaves and the blood shed of these people helped build one of the greatest nations on earth. Many times people only think of slaves as blacks who worked in the cotton fields, but there were native americans in the west who built the cities, and the chinese that built many of the railroads. The nation depended on these people because the their work gave this country great wealth.

Answer 3

because farm work was where all the money was.. and it was to much for one person or family to do... slaves were the cheapest most effective way to go... they could get a lot more done and make more money. It wasn't just the US.. many countries had slaves and at different periods of time.. slaves date back to BC

here I found this if you want to read it....

The importation of slaves into the United States was banned in 1808, by which time about 300,000 had been imported. Subsequent slaves were nearly all born in the United States. By 1800, nearly all slavery in non-southern states had been banned and was on the road to being abolished in the South also. Once the cotton gin had been invented (in 1794), cotton became the main cash crop of the South and slavery became the backbone of the southern oligarchy and their plantation life style. Slavery in the United States also had important political implications. During the westward expansion of the United States during the early and mid-1800's, many Northerners, thoroughly detesting the institution of slavery, tried to prevent its expansion into new territories and new states entering the Union. Attempts by the North to exclude slavery from these lands angered the South and helped bring on the American Civil War in 1861.

There are a broad array of effects arising from the adoption of slavery. Slaves provided a relatively cheap source of labor that was acclimated to the hot climate and diseases of Africa, Brazil, the Caribbean island states and the Southern United States. To hire non-slave workers would have been more expensive, as the early experience of using English indentured workers in the United States demonstrated. Slaves in some places provided a nearly unique source of labor that could survive diseases (that they had developed immunity to in Africa) that would shortly kill nearly everyone else. In the end, slavery in the United States was abolished after a Civil War that cost over 600,000 lives. Slavery was abolished in Brazil in 1888 and in the Caribbean Island countries about 50 years earlier, when France and Britain abolished it. It usually turned out that not only was slavery morally repugnant, but most of the former slaveowners (those that did not go bankrupt) found they could get by cheaper by simply hiring the former slaves only when they needed them. The invention of the electric motor and a myriad of household machinery that has taken most of the drudgery out of housework has removed the necessity of household slaves. The invention of a myriad of labor saving devices has made farming, production, etc. in many countries, so labor-free that slaves are not cost effective.

Answer 4

We didn't why don't you ask another question like who first brought slaves to America it sure as hell wasn't the Americans. There were indentured servants from European countries, that's when you tell some one you would work off the price of coming to America if they would pay for you to come. And if this is an underlying north vs south type deal the north had as many slaves as the south but they worked in factories and were the north's "dirty little secret." Learn Some History and Have A Great Day.

Answer 5

They were free labor and helped the country increase the cotton production. It was wrong but many supported it because they saw it expedient to the growing economy. Farmers didn't have to pay workers to work in their big plantation which will have cost a lot. They didn't worry about abusing the workers or how many hours they'll work because slaves didn't have those rights. It was easier for the plantation owners. It was beneficial to the country. It was wrong but many turned a blind eye on it.

Answer 6

It wasn't necessary. It was just convenient and cheap. For most of history, slave labor was what nations and empires thrived on. Most of humanity was born into slave labor. The concept of human equality and freeing the bonds of slavery is fairly young and it has been extraordinary in changing the way the world works. That we now abhor it should not prejudice us against those who lived in ages when it was a common practice.

Answer 7

It didn't. Yes the richer people that came here got slaves to do the 'dirty' work, but the average builders of America made the equivalent our middle wage citizens make today. Before you can become a 'trust-fund baby' your parents or grand parents had to do the dirty work. The Rockefellers didn't just make money appear out of thin air, someone in their family had to work from the bottom up.

Answer 8

We didnt need slaves it was free hard working labor as they saw it......problem being that your free labor is wrong and that every human has rights and deserves the rights giving to them......The country would have developed weather there where slaves or not its just that it became cheaper and easier

Answer 9

It would appear to be human nature to subjugate others and to get the cheapest labor imaginable.. Look at Walmart and all those Cambodian factories. It is a perverseness that America doesn't ever want to feel the shame of. As long as the dollar remains in individuals pockets.

Answer 10

It was just the cheapest way to go. It was not "necessary".

Are you suggesting this country would not have developed without slaves?

Answer 11

slaves were not the first. indentured servents were the first order of business. people that were convicted of petty crimes were shipped to the *new worlds* america, australia, west indies ect..sold to work off their crimes. the slave market came much later.