1. Native Americans and African Slaves
There were a number of trade routes along the rivers, which led to a heavy reliance on imports and exports. ... According to American Slavery, Kolchin states; "in the North, slaves were few and slaveholdings were typically tiny. Despite the existence of large slave estates in New York and Rhode Island, more Northern slaves were held in very small groups - usually no more than three to four slaves per owner - and worked as farmhands, servants, craftsmen, and general laborers" (Kolchin, 30). As the eighteenth century went along, only about one in every five white households contained o...
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