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At the beginning of the eighteenth century there were less than 300,000 people who inhabited the English-American colonies. By 1775, that population had climbed to almost 2.5 million people, with approximately 20 percent of those being African slaves (Lancaster, 7). The majority of the colonists were involved in agriculture. Most of them were tenant farmers. Men were responsible for labor outside the home while women were responsible for taking care of the children and housework. There was a lot of slavery at the time, so about twenty percent of the population were African slaves. Most of the slaves belonged to Southern plantation owners. More people white people immigrated to the colonies because they thought slavery was economically satisfying (Morgan). The whites thought of the slaves as "goods" because they were able to sell the slaves to other people once they get captured. The slaves worked until death and made the economy better because they worked without pay. Before the......

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