How did the South's reliance on its slave labor system restrict its ability to diversify its economy?
slave labour is largely unskilled cheap and plentiful so they would probably have been short of skilled individuals which would have hampered modernisation, specialisation and the implementation of machinery. Cheap labour often makes economies stagnate as they have little incentive to improve production processes and an inability to improve quality. A lack of educated workers means it is harder to introduce new products as you have a workforce that will find it hard to adapt to the processes and means of manufacture.
Why did dependence on slave labour increase in the southern colonies?
cotton, rice, and tobacco were raised in the southern colonies. In order to raise as much as possible, farmers and plantation owners needed free labor-slaves. Not all farmers had slaves, but even wealthy plantation owners could not have afforded to pay for the work the slaves did. Vast amount of crops needed vast amounts of labor. When the South lost the war,they lost their free labor-and ultimately lost everything
Why did Greece and Rome come to rely heavily on slave labor in the Classical Period?
This is a somewhat loaded question, since the institution of slavery in the classical world was different from our own notions. Roughly speaking, in classical slavery you were bound to a job more-or-less permanently. However, you were never owned, you had certain rights. (Whether or not you could enforce those rights was a different question) The quick answer is that the classical world relied on slavery because it was easy to do so. Most persons were slaves by virtue of 1) being on the wrong side in a military campaign, or 2) being too much in debt. Greek fought Greek fought Greek for centuries, and Rome had a two hundred year period of military expansion, so slaves of type #1 were very common until about the second century AD. After Rome becomes mistress of the Mediterranean, a lot of wealth gets concentrated in the hands of a very, very small number of people. That's when slaves of type #2 become common (eventually leading to the institutions of feudalism, though that's a few centuries down the line).
South Carolina began to rely on slave labor because?
If you can get away with not paying your workers you will be wealthy. It is an investment, albeit an immoral one.
Atlantic Slave Trade?
Explain the slave trade as an aspect of Western imperial and economic expansion in both Africa and America? This is one of the sub questions ive developed for myself for an individual assignment! I've got a few points under it but i'm not sure if theyre actually correct. And this is supposed to focus on the 18th century. Also, i dont have anything under how the slave trade actually helped Europe's imperial expansion into Africa and America in the 18th century :( So please help with that part of the question!!! :) So far, these are my points: 1.) American labor shortage- slave trade provided a great labor force and allowed profits to be made along the way through the triangular trade route. 2.) Africa provided new markets for the goods being produced as Europe, and especially England were industrialised. This also meant that both Africa and America's economies became dependent on Europe and the slave trade. Thanks!!