inning around 1517, Bishop Bartolemeo de las Cascas encouraged immigration to the "new world" by permitting Spaniards to import African slaves to America. Charles II later issued licences to several traders to take Africans to the Spaniard colonies. The monopoly of trade went to the highest bidders. Newer colonies in America then saw slaves as an economical prospect and traded barter for many healthy slaves. It was not until the mid- eighteenth century that Americans purchased slaves from many Europeans for the purpose of plantation labor.
             Among the various sharecropping like sugarcane, rice, and wheat, Cotton picking had become the most dynamic area in economic activity in the United States. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, the southeastern states had grown most of the cotton . By approximately 1821, the south-central states were producing one third of the cotton in the United States. By 1834, the coastal states produced one hundred sixty million pounds ; While Alabama , Mississippi, and Louisiana and other newly settled areas domi
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