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The Chesapeake Bay people struggled with malaria, dysentry and typhoid. They also had a lot of diseases coming from fresh immigration from England. The majority of their immigrants were single men and women were scarce. Most of the women were impregnated before marriage. Then people became acquired immunity to the killer diseases and more women were allowed on the colony which form to families in the birth rate was growing
It started the tobacco cultivation. It exhausted the soil. More commercial growers that were interested in plantation cultivation invaded the river valleys of Indian territories which led to attacks. This also led to more labor. Indians died too quickly and African slaves cost too much.England had a surplus of displaced farmers known as indentured servant's that would work for corn clothes and land.
It was started in Virginia and Maryland. It was used to encourage the importation of servant workers. Whoever paid the passage of a labor receive the right to acquire 50 acres of land. These people decided to dominate the agriculture in the converse of the southern colonies. The white slaves represented more than 75% of all European immigrants to Virginia and Maryland . Most of the indentured servant's were working for land in for freedom but when land became scarce they lost motivation and became missed behaving which led them to an extended term of service under low wages
a 1676 raid led by Nathaniel Bacon against the governor and Native Americans in Virginia. The governor of Virginia governor William Berkeley had governed people and labored men who are poor, in debt, unhappy and armed. Nathaniel bacon a planter and many frontier men were in search of arable land. They didn't agree with Berkeley's policies towards Indians and when they decided to launch an attack against Indians Berkeley refused. They changed Berkeley through Jamestown and torch the capital. Bacon died of disease and his bottle cause resentment towards landless former servants of the front tears men and the Tidewater plantations. Begin to look for tobacco laborers in Africa
You are dominant in Virginia South Carolina. They were originally captured by African coastal tribes who traded them into the market to European and American merchants. They were going on ships through the middle passage and we're auction in Newport, Rhode Island, Charleston, North Carolina, South Carolina. This was a giant slave market.
No slave could be saved. It was started for economic reasons but ended because of racial discrimination. In the south in South Carolina the climate was hostile the labor was draining with the widely scattered rice and indigo plantations and they relied on fresh imports. In the Chesapeake tobacco growing region. There was less physical demanding through Tabacco growing , it was larger and closer which led slaves contact with their close relatives and friends. The female proportion began to rise which made family life possible. It didn't just grow with new imports but also fertility.