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Slavery was a strong institution in colonial america and it began the initial seperation of the north and south because of economic and social differences. The slaves from africa had many advantages over the natives and indentured servants. Many differences between the northern and southern colonial america the caused the start of seperation. The ideal slaves would have been the native americans but the were quick to fall to disease and die. African slaves had already built an immunity to most white diseases and any others that were in america. The africans were also much better behaved and easier to control, the indentured servants couldnt be owned and had hopes and dreams of moving up the social ladder, the african slaves on the other had were far easier to keep in line. The indentured servants were more prone to fight back and be disobidient, an example would be Bacons rebellion in which a man by the name of Nathaniel Bacon led a group to fight back. Northen america at the time was focused not with slavery because they were not profitable to the colonists, the economy there was focused on things like fishing, farming, and furs. Southern colonial america was focused on plantation life in which slaves were profitable. This caused the economic views of one another to be very apart. As well as things in culture such as education was seperate in view from north to south, education was the law in the north and in the south education was best used simply learning a buisness or trade directly. The north had contributed many goods directly to europe and europe to africa, when slaves eventually came to americas they were in a constant supply and this chattel, or owened slaves, were the strenth of the rich south and without them large tobacco and cotton plantations wouldnt be possible.