How Did Slavery Affect America

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Slavery in North America lasted for about two hundred and forty five years. Slaves were brought into America to relieve the labor demand. The Americans started growing lucrative crops, such as tobacco, cotton, sugarcane,and indigo, and soon learned that it was very difficult to grow for themselves and bought African slaves to work on the plantations. Sadly, slavery majorly affected the development of the United States in a positive way.

The first African Americans brought to Jamestown, Virginia in 1619 on a Dutch trading ship were not slaves. They were simply indentured servants. Slavery slowly started to fill the colonies.”By the turn of the eighteenth century African Slaves numbered in the tens of thousands in the British colonies.”