189.+Which+region+of+the+U.S.+supported+slavery?the+South

Clark T.

The region of the United States that wanted slavery was the south. They wanted slavery because they got there living by farming. Since they were lazy and had huge farmland they would get slaves to work for them. The slave owners treated the slaves very bad. The slaves worked for no money and lived in horrible living conditions. They would sell the slaves for money. They didnt care whether they were with there family or not. If the slaves did something bad they would get hit by a whip.

The first record of African slavery in Colonial America is of a Dutch ship which brought twenty blacks recorded and sold them to the English colony of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619 as indentured servants. However, these individuals were freed as were other indentured servants after the stated period, and at least one, Anthony Johnson, eventually became a landowner on the Eastern Shore and a slave owner himself. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_the_United_States

While estimates of the number of slaves brought to North America vary from a few hundred thousand to a few million, and thus cannot be stated for certain, it is known that the slave population in the United States had grown to 4 million by the 1860 Census. In other countries, the slave population barely reproduced itself. From the later eighteenth century, and possibly before that even, and until the Civil War, the rate of natural growth of North American slaves was much greater than for the population of any nation in Europe, and was nearly twice as rapid as that of England.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_the_United_States