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...... The slave experience in the United States has been defined
historically by their economic necessity to the landowners. Before slaves
were imported, these same landowners seized the land from the Native
Americans and even tried to enslave the Native Americans (Parent 24). The
"emerging elite (would) treat land as a commodity," and such an attitude
would have an effect on slaves in the future as land was a commodity
because land was the source for the agriculture that would lead to wealth
(Parent 25). Ultimately this use of the land would lead the elite to adapt
the "headright system" leading the land to be seized by the elite, laying
the framework for slavery. As whites were being used as farming servants,
it eventually became clear that blacks can make tobacco cheaper than whites
and thus began the introduction of slaves in the British colonies (Parent
66)
As slaves began to be used in agriculture, their role in the economic
system became of utmost importance. Tobacco, for example, was a crop that
was sold for very cheap and thus it required cheaper and cheaper labor
until that labor was free. The costs of supporting and raising black slave
families, which

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