Question

How did racial slavery develop in the colonies of British North America?

PLEASE ANSWER IN CORRECT ENGLISH.

Answer 1

The most important reason which led to the development of slavery in British North America was due to shortage of labour to perform labour intensive jobs like Agriculture. However there have been several complex factors which further augmented such development. However most attributable reason was labour intensive plantation or agricultural job such as sugar cane farming, which was known as sugar economies.

Later, slave status became hereditary during 17^th century. As the time passed and agrarian economy further developed the demand for more labour resulted in demand for more slaves.

The European demand for cash crops like cotton, tobacco, rice further demanded for labour to cultivate these crops. Africans were well suited for this purpose as they already had the required skills to perform these jobs.

British colony of north America not only imported Africans rather they also made native Americans as their slave. Native Americans were sent to Caribbean’s as slaves. There were instances when many of these slaved fled to south America.

Only a fraction of slaved brought from Africans came to British colony of north America. The shipment of slaves to American colonies increased in second half of 17^th century after creation of royal African company to trade in slaves and African goods.

Hence as we have seen above the major reason for development of slavery was due to lack of labour to do the labour-intensive jobs and primarily plantation related job.