Slave_History

Slave History 2. Describe the change in slavery as an institution from 1680 to 1739. By the 1680’s, planters in Chesapeake colonies of Virginia and Maryland began to shift from servants to slaves and the rest of the colonies were soon to follow. Two factors aided in the institutionalization of slavery, the decline of indentured servitude and the availability of African slaves. The Spanish and Portuguese first brought African slaves to America to replace the number of dwindling of Indian slaves. The Dutch soon followed in the profitable business of slave trade, other colonies adopted the trade slowly. The growing colonies were increasing; and decline in servant migration produced a labor crisis. With the spread of tobacco farming in the 1670's, and the diminishing number of people willing to sign-on slaves, slavery, colonies, trade, servants, made, availability, soon, slave, seen, profitable, people, number, labor, indentured, increasing, desirable, decline, brought, began, african, willing, virginia, two, transporting, tobacco, system, susceptible, sugar, spread, spanish, southern, slowly, sign-on, shift