In the Colonial America slavery rapidly increased over time. Starting in the 1600s slavery was legal in the first thirteen colonies, but it was more common in the south. Many africans were brought over and began to be enslaved.
Slavery in america initiated when the first african slaves transported to the North American colonies of Jamestown, Virginia in 1619 to help in the manufacture well-paid crops as tobacco. In the expansion of the America was the arrival of Africans to Jamestown. A Dutch slave trader traded his load of Africans for food in 1619. The Africans turn out to be indentured servants , similar in permitted postion to many unfortunate Englishmen who trader several years