Question

Why were slaves important to the colonial economy?

Answer 1

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Slaves were important to the colonial economy because they rarely worked for money. Slaves mostly worked on hue plantations so they produced a lot of cotton and such for almost never any wage. Unlike white men at the time who were working for money.

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Answer 2

Slaves provided very low-cost labor to maintaining plantations and other labor-intensive works for the colonial economy.