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Colonial Lake

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Colonial Lake
Colonial Lake
Colonial Lake
Colonial Lake
Colonial Lake
Colonial Lake
Colonial Lake
Colonial Lake
Colonial Lake
Colonial Lake
Colonial Lake
Colonial Lake
Colonial Lake
Colonial Lake
Colonial Lake
Address:
42 Ashley Ave, Charleston, SC 29401

Slavery in the colonial area which later became the United States developed from complex factors, and researchers have proposed several theories to explain the development of the institution of slavery and of the slave trade. Slavery strongly correlated with Europe's American colonies' need for labor, especially for the labor-intensive plantation economies of the sugar colonies in the Caribbean, operated by Great Britain, France, Spain, and the Dutch Republic. Most slaves who were brought or kidnapped to the Thirteen British colonies - the Eastern seaboard of what later became the United States - were imported from the Caribbean, not directly from Africa. They had come to the Caribbean islands as a result of the Atlantic slave trade. Indigenous people were also enslaved in the North American colonies, but on a much smaller scale, and Indian slavery largely ended in the eighteenth century. In the English colonies, slave status for Africans became hereditary in the mid-17th century with the passage of colonial laws that defined children born in the colonies as taking the status of the mother, under the principle of partus sequitur ventrem.
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