slavery

= = =**//__Slavery__//**= Slavery in the united states was a form of unfree labor that was introduced in the spanish colonies as early as the 1560's. Africans weren't imported to the americas' until 1619 that was in virginia. Most slaves where africans but there where cases of native americans and others that were also classified as slaves, and in other cases some africans' enslaved other africans. Slavery quickly spread across the united states mostly to places where their was more farmland and also plantations where the soil was of good quality. The slaves where used as workers to work the plantation field's and pick cotton,coffee,tobacco, and sugar, most of the slave holders where located in the southern part of the united states. slavery in the united states wasn't always' outright ownership of a human being it started out as what they called indentured servitude this would last for several years and usually it wasn't made up of just african but also white's and other's alike, they paid with labor to get transport to other countries'