This meant that early colonial labor forces in the Americas were often a mix of Europeans, American Indians, and Africans. In large plantation areas, however, enslaved Africans and their African American offspring increasingly became the dominant laboring population. Colonial Labor. The servants which are made use of in the English colonies are either free persons, or slaves, and the former are again of two different sorts. The colonial economy of what would become the United States was pre-industrial, primarily characterized by subsistence farming. Farm households also were engaged in handicraft production, mostly for home consumption, but with some goods sold.
It is Central Africa because it is very poor there and the leaders are too greedy to use money for creating factories and putting their own people to work.
