African slavery was necessary in the early seventeenth century for the European settlers in the new world. In North America, African slavery was taken into account because it was way cheaper and they were better at working in plantations than indentured servants. These slaves worked on plantations of tobacco and indigo. In the eighteenth century more or less about six million African slaves arrived to the New World. They were restrained from learning to write or read. European slavery compared to African slavery was way less, millions less.
The Plymouth colony was more industrialized and did not rely much on slave labor, unlike the south which everything was about labor work. Either way, slave labor depended on the whole nations economic needs. In the south slaves would work on tobacco and cotton, thus making a lot of money for the southern colonies. The south would trade their crops with the northern colonies and overseas and many things relied on their work. Both the north and the south benefited greatly from African