What were the political, economic, and social reasons that slavery developed in the southern colonies as it did in the late 1600s and early 1700s?

Question

What factors and events permitted slavery to become institutionalized in the southern colonies?

Answer 1

Answer: An ideal answer will:
1. Discuss how the Chesapeake developed around tobacco farming that required a large supply of workers who could be trained to cultivate this crop.
2. Discuss how the Carolinas cash crops of rice and indigo also required a large supply of workers who could be trained to cultivate these crops.
3. Discuss how fewer English workers were available to cultivate these crops because after Bacon's Rebellion, the planter elite began to replace indentured servants with slaves.
4. Note how the development of the brutal and deadly Middle Passage (the transit of slaves from Africa to the Americas) included the sending of just over a 100,000 African slaves to the southern colonies of North America between 1700 and 1750 and the sending of just over 10,000 colonies to the northern colonies.
5. Discuss how as the numbers of African slaves increased in the North American colonies, slavery became closely linked to race and automatically implicated mixed-race children of black mothers and white fathers but proved problematic when applied to white mothers and black fathers.
6. Note how by 1700, Indians were increasingly excluded from North American colonies of Virginia and the Carolinas, thus, reducing substantially the reliance of the white planter elite on Indian slave labor.
7. Discuss how the treatment of slaves as strictly property and how depriving slaves of basic human freedoms such as the freedom to marry and raise their children without interference and sale in the salve market by their masters, the planter elite defined and institutionalized slavery.
8. Write a concise and effective conclusion.