... slavery became increasingly widespread in the American colonies. Largely, this was due to a shortage of European indentured servants, an end to the Royal African Company's monopoly over the slave trade (competition among slave traders led to a decrease in slave prices), and a realization among the colonists that slaveholding was far more profitable than the employment of indentured servants. The years ... sale. However, the rise of slavery and the increased demand for food among the burgeoning colonial population spurred a shift in emphasis from sustenance to commercial agriculture. Slave...

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... 71). The intermediary role that creoles played in the translation of one culture to another is crucial to the growth of the African slave trade in the Chesapeake. The early 17th century, society with slaves, allowed slaves some opportunity to lead a decent life. Through a rather ... impartial social order, slaves filled no vital and unique economic niche, and there was relatively easy socializing between the races, free and enslaved, among the laboring classes. In the early 17th century black and white indentured servants from England worked together on plantations, sharing roughly ......

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