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"Slavery, though imposed and maintained by violence, was a negotiated relationship....

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What contributed most to the increasing use of African slave labor in

North America during the 1600s and 1700s was the constant demand of more hands, more labor workers to work in the large plantations of the North American colonies.

At the beginning of the colonial settlings, most colonies used indentured servitude. But the need for more hands made plantation owners import African slaves to grow crops such as cotton, tobacco, and rice. Southern plantations depended too much on slaves because landlords had to export crops to Europe.