1) What types of jobs did slaves do in each colonial region: New England, Middle and the South?

2) Why were the jobs in each region different?

3) Why were slaves important to the colonial economy?

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Luca Hunt

26 February, 11:00

1) What types of jobs did slaves do in each colonial region: New England, Middle and the South?

2) Why were the jobs in each region different?

3) Why were slaves important to the colonial economy?

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South - Worked on plantations or house slave

Middle - House slave

New England - House slave

Different regions of the colonies had different soil properties and different ways of life. Slavery was only a major contribution to the economy in the southern colonies--Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. These states' economies depended on crops that required intensive cultivation by unskilled hands. Originally, indentured servants provided this labor. Unlike indentured servants, slaves could provide unpaid labor for their entire lifetimes and their children were also slaves. As a result, slaves became a sizable demographic in all the aforementioned states.

1) What types of jobs did slaves do in each colonial region: New England, Middle and the South?2) Why were the jobs in each region different?3) Why were slaves important to the colonial economy?

1) What types of jobs did slaves do in each colonial region: New England, Middle and the South?

2) Why were the jobs in each region different?

3) Why were slaves important to the colonial economy?