American Slave and Plantation Economy. The main purpose in bringing African slaves to America was profit. Tobacco was a labor-intensive crop to plant and harvest, but with the use of workers, plantation owners could cultivate their land well and harvest agricultural products in large quantities. At first, slave labor was not necessary for growing tobacco in the American colonies because they had English farm laborers. Not until later, when the plantation began to grow. The plantation required more manual labor and skilled workers because the larger the plantation, the richer and more successful the owners became. To achieve these selfish goals, plantation owners needed workers, and they cannot afford to pay workers significant wages. Thus, slave labor was seriously needed for plantation machinery. However, many factors contributed to American colonial slavery, but most importantly was the effect it had on their personal enrichment and industrialization. It was very difficult in the south and there is a lot of work to be done in the hot sun. Because whites were not content to do the work themselves, most plantation owners purchased slaves to work on their farmland. This means that they had no choice but to seek out generational slaves to work for them in the unpleasant conditions of the tobacco plantations. It all started by pressuring people to do what they didn't like to do. The colonies initially began using Indian labor to produce sugar. Slaves were normally brought to plantations when it was just bush land, and ordered to cut down trees, cultivate the land by hand, and produce water... middle of paper......de but exclusively to shut down the slave trade British. When Thomas Jefferson created his first version of the Declaration of Independence in which he accused King George of popularizing slavery in America. The Declaration of Independence became acclaimed as the written document that truly affirmed human rights and personal freedom on July 4, 1776. The dynamism of slavery activists slowly but surely became more prevalent in their fight for the freedom of slaves. Slavery was a major thing that supported the American economy and was not an easy thing to eliminate. fall overnight because it has existed in most places and most of the nation's history. The slave trade was finally eradicated in America with the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment by President Lincoln in 1865. In conclusion, slaves were basically a tool for profit in the American colonies.