In Barbados and Jamaica (the sugar islands) sugar was a major crop. The owners of these sugar plantations were badly in need of laborers to work for them year round, and because the natives died off so speedily, they needed to bring in someone to do the grueling tasks for them. They tried to use indentured servants, but this was extremely difficult because sugar is a year round, demanding sort of crop and nobody sought …
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…of the population consisted of black people as a direct result of the slave trade from that port. By 1770 black people were about 10 percent of the population in New York and New Jersey. By the end of the eighteenth century nearly half a million slaves had been sold into slavery. Without them the colonies would not have been as successful as they were. America had become a successful asset, unlike anything England had seen before.