SLAVE LABOR SYSTEM

Slave Labor System

Slave Labor System

Introduction

This paper intends to examine the slavery system in 17th century. It focuses to answer that on what basis slave labor system reduced tensions between poor white farmers and prosperous planters in the Chesapeake region in the latter decades of the 17th century.

Discussion

Slavery in the United States and the use of slave labor existed in the United States in 1619-1865. Most slaves were Africans and their descendants, had been abducted from their living areas. Slave labor was used extensively in the plantation sector, allowing to receive the American slaveholder's high profits. In the first half ...