How did slave

labor differ in

British North American

Colonies

The economies of all 13 British colonies in North Amercia depended on slaverly. By the 1620s, the labor-intensive cultivation of tobacco for Eurpopean markets was established in Virginia, with white indentured servants performing most of the heavy labor. By 1675 slavery was well established, and by 1700 slaves had almost entirely replaced indentured servants. With plentiful land and slave labor available to grow a lucrative crop, southern planters prospered, and family-based tobacco plantations became the economic and social norm.