Question

Answer all questions given under the heading.

Plantations and the slave labor

1. Why did the southern states resort to acquiring slaves from Africa?
2. How were these slaves treated?
3. Did the Northern state resort to acquiring slaves? Give reasons.
4. What happened to the Native Americans?

Answer 1

1. The Native Americans resisted attempts to make them work in the plantations, So the European planters, chiefly of tobacco, in the southern states- Virginia, Carolinas and Georgia – in their search for labour resorted to acquire slaves from Africa
2. The innocent people of Africa were captured in man-hunts and sent across the seas in a cruel and inhuman manner.
3. In the northern States, conditions were different. There were compact farms and not huge plantations as in the south. Large numbers of workers were not needed for these farms.
4. Native Americans had no place in either of these. So these people were gradually pushed back to the west.