Question

How did bringing slaves to North America promote economic growth?

They did the work without pay, and masters kept the profit.
They got a job to make money for their families.
They specialized in different jobs and trained settlers in the colonies.
They were able to start their own businesses.

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How did bringing slaves to North America promote economic growth?

In the pre-Civil War United States, a stronger case can be made that slavery played a critical role in economic development. One crop, slave-grown cotton, provided over half of all US export earnings. By 1840, the South grew 60 percent of the world's cotton and provided some 70 percent of the cotton consumed by the British textile industry.

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