Indentured servitude and slavery in colonial America

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By 1714, 95% of American exports to Britain came from the slave colonies, causing most to say that the African slave labor was what really made the British empire a success. Like the indentured servants, slaves greatly helped the tobacco industry which allowed plantations to spread across the colonies...
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Slave trade within the colonies also became a major industry, particularly in South Carolina where the slave trade was the most profitable part of the economy. The labor slaves performed and the industry of slave trade both greatly contributed to bettering the American economy during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries...
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