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.
The large qualities of silver and gold from the new world during the 1500s affected the economy of the western
Separate but equal facilities between whites and blacks (not weren't really equal)
