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Slavery was an important aspect in colonial America because plantation owners didn't want to do the hard work that tobacco needs, and slaves were better than the Indians or Indentured servants. Slavery eventually divided the North and South economically and how its infrastructure was. One reason it was important was because plantation owners want to have an easy lifestyle because they believed that that would make them more gentlemen like. They thought that the less they worked the better they would look to society. In the South, tobacco was the main crop for profit and tobacco is very time consuming and labor intensive, so slaves could do all the dirty work and you could get the profit. Slaves were good because you only had to pay for them once and they were yours for however long you wanted. If a women had a baby that baby would be owned by you and either sold or put into slavery at your plantation. Since you only had to pay for them once you made a better profit then if you had an indentured servant because with an indentured servant you would have them for only seven years and you would have to give them some things before they left. The more slaves you had, the more plants you could grow and the more profit you could collect. Since tobacco is very labor intensive you could buy slaves to do that and so tobacco was a possibility. Slaves from Africa were better than Indians because whenever Indians came into contact with the whites they got a disease and died. If they didn't get a disease they usually ran away back to their tribe. African slaves were better than indentured servants for a couple reasons. They were a one time expense and cheaper and they were less trouble because they had less rights and indentured servants had more drive as it show in Bacon's Rebellion. Slaves were nice because they already had skills for the work they did from Africa. Slavery spilt the colonies in two because in the North slaves weren't really need because there weren't many big plantations in the North just mostly small farming. People in the North were mostly merchants or other jobs that require some sort of skill, and fishing was also very important especially in the