Question

What percentage of the population in the Southern Colonies was made up of slaves?

Answer 1

Answer:

25%

Explanation:

By the 1750's almost  25% of people in America were black slaves.

Answer 2

Answer:

As Britain developed the colony for plantation agriculture, the percentage of slaves in the population in twenty years rose from 18% to almost 65% by 1783. Virginia and Chesapeake Bay Further information: History of slavery in Virginia and History of slavery in Maryland The first recorded Africans in Virginia arrived in late August 1619.