She points out that even though there are many explanations that conflict with each other, historians agree that Englishmen set out to America with the intention of shipping over and then enslaving Africans when they got there. ... To the plantation owners, the economics of slavery was evident - slaves helped produce a higher profit as nothing needed to be given back to them. ... Since slaves were their property, they were able to take them with them and help the North American settlers to develop a more profitable land by producing rice. Economics also played a role in Virginia in 1600&#x...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Not only did the European sailors provide direct ocean routes to areas that had been in contact with Europe through more expensive and difficult overland routes such as West Africa and East Asia, but also the ships reached areas that had had no preceding sustained and reciprocal contact with the outside world. ... They could direct commerce in ways that helped them also compel Africans to wage wars that might otherwise not have been waged. ... Africans proved to be more profitable than Indians because they had other added "bonuses" that came with them. ... Negro slaves supplied the obvious sol...

• Word Count: 1449
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Their everyday lives were often consumed with endless amounts of work, from farming to hunting, that were necessary for their survival. ... Some had tight, close knit families, while others concentrated more on their slaves or their hired help for family type needs. ... The northern region of colonial America was an influential region because its eventual formation of government and acts of rebellion would be the spark that helped us gain our freedom from England. ... The basic community structure of the North contained various types of services and shops, and this industrial type economy s...

• Word Count: 2981
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate