Question

What was the need for slaves in the Southern states?

Answer 1

1. The European planters, chiefly of tobacco, in the southern states- Virginia, Carolinas and Georgia needed workers to work in the plantations.
2. The Native Americans resisted attempts to make them work in the plantations.
3. Thus the European planters were in search of labour in Africa.
4. The innocent people of Africa were captured in man-hunts and sent across the seas in a cruel and inhuman manner.