Discuss The Role Of English Settlers In The Early 1600s

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In the beginning of the early 1600s, English settlers were eager for unpaid labor, without it they could have starved to death. The settlers tried forcing the Indians to work for them, but failed because they were deeply outnumbered. Another issue is that the English tried enslaving the Indians on their own land. That just isn’t sensible. The importance of slaves commenced. By 1619, the Portuguese had already abducted over a million Africans and transported them across the Atlantic Ocean. Where they were brought to the Caribbean and South America to work as slaves. Rebellion was bound to break out, due to the harsh laws that was forced upon slaves by the English. They worked lengthy hours and weren’t allowed to marry without their masters’

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