In 1501, shortly after Christopher Columbus discovered America, Spain and Portugal began shipping African slaves to South America to work on their plantations. In the 1600s, English colonists in Virginia began buying Africans to help grow tobacco.
salavery delvelop as the need for labors grew more slaves were brought from Africa the number of slave in the south grew because slaves wer needed for agriculture
Facts
african americans northerners used slaves most often as servants in upper class homes aka house maids,most slaves worked 6 days a week 15 to 16 hours a day in the summer and 14 hours a day the rest of the year many free workers and even their masters worked similiar hours
In the 18th century the average home cointained 5.7 free people (no counting servants or slaves). Few colonies included grandparents or other extended kin.
