How Did Slavery Increase In Colonial Virginia

With slavery on the rise in Virginia during the colonial period, many questions may arise concerning this point. For example, one may ask: What were the working conditions like? What was the average work hours? How were their living conditions? With most of the slaves at the colonial period in Virginia working on tobacco fields, the land on which they farmed quickly became infertile. Tobacco at this time is widely used by everyone in the colonies and a great economic factor for the colonies. Due to the fact that the land would become infertile, the farms either had to expand further or move to a more fertile soil. Luckily, there was a lot of land westward so expansion wasn’t a big problem for farmers if they had the resources to do so. With

The weather in the Carolina colonies was better for certain crops and eventually became the better area to farm which led to a rise in slavery in the south. During the early years of the Carolinas slavery was barely existing but since South Carolina had close ties with Barbados many of the settlers were Barbadians, this meant that some of them arrived with African American workers (Brinkley, pg.50). Slavery had taken root in Barbados earlier than the mainland colonies so when the Barbadians came to the mainland they had suggested that the colonists start using African people for their own person use on their plantations (Brinkley, pg. 50). But this caused problems between the original colonists and the rich Barbadians. It was true that the Island of Barbados was one of the colonies major trading partners but that did not change the problems between the people. The relationship between the people was caused by the death of Lord Shaftesbury, because of his death, proprietors were unable to establish any order in the colony. The colonists decided to take control of the colony and were able to in the early 1700s (Brinkley, pg. 51). It wasn’t for another decade that the king finally separated the colony into both North and South Carolina. Before the divide the South was less of an industrial economy and more of an agricultural based economy. The reason behind the difference in economies is because of the wide range of soil and land in each region. The land in the South was more fertile and prosperous than the North. Since there was more swampy land in the South where rice was cultivating the reliability for slaves in colonies like Georgia and South Carolina were more present. The reasoning behind the use of slaves was not just because of the fact that whites could order them to do so, it was also for the fact that