The main reason for the slaves was for the production of sugar and, as a result 60 to 70% of slaves that were brought from Africa ended up on sugar colonies. ... Farmers moved their whole plantation to the New Southern states like Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. ... The book also provides information about the profitability from Conrad and Meyer, who studied data on the Southern economy. ... This only gave Southern planters a gross income of about three million dollars. ... The data accumulated in chapter three shows how Southern plantations were prosperous and not ...

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• Grade Level: High School

What does it mean to be an American? What does it mean to be an American slave? These two questions are ideal thematic rhetorical statements that both Crevecoeur and Douglass write about in various ways. Crevecoeur was not born in the United States, but once he arrived here, he was a free man who ma...

• Word Count: 2927
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The Native Americans and Africans Slaves are two prominent groups seen in the Colonial Era with great influence, difficult challenges, and cultures that shaped the colonies into how we see them today. ... The Southwest peoples including the Hohokam, Mogollan, and Anasazi, originated out of New Mexico and Southern Arizona used Mesoamerican crops and farming techniques. ...

• Word Count: 2660
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• Grade Level: High School