Slavery developed more slowly in North America than in the English West Indies because Parliament passed a law in 1643 that gave tax breaks to British West Indian planters who imported slaves but no colonists who imported slaves. those living in the British West Indies opposed slavery until the American colonies won their independence in the it was a longer trip from Africa to North America, making slavery less profitable. the high death rate among tobacco workers made it economically unappealing to pay more for a slave likely to di planters in Virginia and Maryland agreed that indentured servants were far less troublesome.
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