It helped them farm and to grow crops. They needed this to live and to trade. It had a good source of water and could be used to drive enemies away from them.
For one, there wasn't exactly a labor shortage. Because of the economic theory of mercantilism, the colonies were established to produce a surplus of goods. In other words, the only reason there was a labor shortage was because the colonies had been established in the first place for the purpose of creating tons and tons of mostly unnecessary stuff (like tobacco). The best solution would have been simply not to colonize America in the first place, but the colonists could also simply have done the work themselves, or hired labor from other parts of the world rather than capturing and enslaving people.
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neither I'm not old enough to vote yet..... this is out of my hands for now.
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