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Slavery grew to be an important institution in Colonial America, and it played an important factor in how the North and South Colonies began to split. There were many differences between the North and the South but slavery was one of the biggest reasons. Slavery grew to be something so huge because blacks were immune to white man disease, better than indentured servants, and for economic reasons. They began to split because of the education, infanstructure, and their individual economies.

The blacks were immune to disease which was nice because that way they wouldn't die from being around whites. The indians were very suseptible to white man diseases which was bad because they didn't live very long at all while under white control. The blacks were more immune because they were near whites a lot longer then the indians were, because Africa is right next to Europe. The reason the Native Americans were so suseptible, was because they had no white visitors for thousands of years because no one no knew about them. Also it helped that there was a massive ocean between them. Slavery was extremely better then indentured servants because white plantation owners did not own anything belonging to the indentured servant. If the indentured servant had a kid during his period of working his years off, the plantation owner could not take the child or have anything to do with it. With slaves though, if a black woman had a baby, the plantation owner then owned the kid as well. Unlike indentured servants, blacks were soon reffered to as "Chattle" right after the slave codes came out. Slaves could be diciplined with whipping or clubbing, but the servants could not be. Servants could not be overworked but the slaves could be worked as long and as hard as they wanted them to. If the slaves wanted to know why there being treated differently the slave owners could just point out there different colored skin and they would then understand why. Also slaves could work for life, and indentured servants could only work for a certain amount of years.