African slaves were brought to the English colonies to meet the demand for labor. This amount of labor was needed due to the large scale farming and plantation systems that revolved around cash crops in the Southeastern part of the United States.
During the 1600's, the development of tobacco became very profitable for members of the English colonies. This is why African slaves were needed for labor, as the more tobacco that could be produced the more money a plantation owner could make. This pattern would continue on until slavery was outlawed, with the only real change being the types of crops being produced (cotton became the main crop at the beginning of the 19th century).
Answer:
African slaves were brought to the English colonies to meet the demand for labor.
Explanation:
The first blacks introduced into English North America did not do so as slaves, but as deeded workers, like many of the European immigrants before 1776, who at the end of the contract were free, as wage earners.
However, for the blacks the deed was, too many times, life-long. In 1650 it was almost impossible for them to obtain freedom: the Europeans had begun to value the riches of the New World and needed to exploit them with cheap and submissive labor, and forgetting their liberal origins slipped into slavery. Maryland legalized it in 1634. Delaware in 1636. In 1671 there were already 2,000 black slaves in Virginia (5 percent of the total population). Before 1680 all the English colonies of North America had adopted slavery.
