s an economic necessity for the agriculture. Selling or buying slaves at auctions was like a human stock market and for the many was a!
             source of income. Every big plantation owner wanted to buy into slavery. If it saved them money then they were all for it, and that's why slavery became so popular and common in the southern states. It was a good way to buy cheap, slave produced raw materials.
             At first, British Colonists recognized African laborers as indentured servants. Their status soon changed as Massachusetts and Maryland passed laws specifying that Africans would serve in bondage for life and that a child born into the colony would inherit the status of its mot
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