The Growth of slavery started when the first African Americans were brought to Jamestown in 1619, on the Dutch trading ship. The African Americans were not considered free unless who bought them made them free, back then that never happened. Slaves were brought to either worked in the house or in the fields to pick cotton or tobacco. The British colony was the first colony in Virginia to establish slavery in North America, Maryland, and the Carolinas, were soon to become colonies establish slavery as well just like Virginia's first colony. The Puritans and Quakers did practice slavery, the Africans were enslaved as well. By the eighteenth
The Growth of slavery started when the first African Americans were brought to Jamestown in 1619, on the Dutch trading ship. The African Americans were not considered free unless who bought them made them free, back then that never happened. Slaves were brought to either worked in the house or in the fields to pick cotton or tobacco. The British colony was the first colony in Virginia to establish slavery in North America, Maryland, and the Carolinas, were soon to become colonies establish slavery as well just like Virginia's first colony. The Puritans and Quakers did practice slavery, the Africans were enslaved as well. By the eighteenth