Question

Evaluate the economic, geographic, and social factors that impacted the growth of slavery in the southern colonies between 1607 and 1775.

Answer 1

Answer:

The geographic, economic, and social factors that impacted the growth of slavery in the southern colonies of the United States were as follows:

-On the one hand, the temperate climate of the southern colonies, from Virginia to Florida, encouraged the production of agricultural and livestock products, which needed abundant labor to be exploited efficiently.

-This made the southern colonies rely predominantly on the production of these resources as the main means of economic production.

-Thus, to efficiently exploit the resources of the south, the large landowners began to use slave labor to cultivate large amounts of land.

-This in turn was fostered by an extremely racist system, based on the presumed predominance of the white race in physical and intellectual terms.