Slavery+during+the+1700's

__Slavery during the 1700's __
 * During the 1700's the population of the English colonies grew dramactically. The number of Europeans living in the colonies grew from about 250,000 in 1770 to 2.5 million in 1775. The population of African Americans rose from 28,000 to more than 500,000.
 * Between 1607 and 1790, about a million people (600,00 Europeans and 300,000 Africans) came to live in the colonies.
 * The reason these number increased rapidly was because immigration. Also, women usually married early and had large families.
 * Majority of the people lived in the South because of the warm climates and the fertile soil caused them to grow rice, tobacco, sugar canes, and more. Most plantations slaves worked in the feilds. Others were just craft-workers, messengers, and servants.
 * Most people in New England lived in well-organized towns with little agriculture because of poor soil.
 * The cooler climate caused better farming and growing cash crops in the Middle Colonies. Small scale manufacturing was also part of the Middle Colonies economy.
 * Europeans would trade goods for African slaves on shipping route that became known as The Middle Passage. Others followed routes such as, The Triangular Trade, because the routes formed triangles.
 * Most Africans lived as slaves on plantations. The slaves were forced to follow strict rules. Slaves could not leave the plantation without a written permission from their master.
 * The economic success of the southern colonies was because of slavery. But the injustices of slavery would eventually bring bloody war against the Northerners and Southerners.
 * Only certain people were allowed to vote making the system unfair. White men had the right to vote while neither women, landless and poor people, enslaved Africans can vote.

 

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