Yet another thing is that while the 13 colonies were British, the English were late comers to the Americas................compared to those from the Iberian penn.............it was from the Spanish crown that Columbus got his 3 ships.............then Portugal came here as well...............Roanoke island was left in like 1590............Jamestown wasn't until 1604 or so.............and so was Plymouth rock, MA.............................Cortez had Montezuma murdered and was down into Honduras in the 1500s............the Portuguese were bringing slaves into Brazil, etc...............and so was Holland.........before NYC was NYC.........it was New Amsterdam............

During most of the British colonial period, slavery existed in all the colonies. People enslaved in the North typically worked as house servants, artisans, laborers and craftsmen, with the greater number in cities. The South depended on an agricultural economy, and it had a significantly higher number and proportion of slaves in the population, as its commodity crops were labor intensive.^[16] Early on, enslaved people in the Southworked primarily in agriculture, on farms and plantations growing indigo, rice, and tobacco; cotton became a major crop after the 1790s. The invention of the cotton gin enabled the cultivation of short-staple cotton in a wide variety of areas, leading to the development of the Deep South as cotton country. Tobacco was very labor intensive, as was rice cultivation.^[17] In South Carolina in 1720, about 65% of the population consisted of enslaved people.^[18] Planters (defined by historians as those who held 20 enslaved people or more) used enslaved workers to cultivate commodity crops. They also worked in the artisanal trades on large plantations and in many southern cities. Backwoods subsistence farmers, the later wave of settlers in the 18th century who settled along the Appalachian Mountains and backcountry, seldom held enslaved people.

Some of the British colonies attempted to abolish the international slave trade, fearing that the importation of new Africans would be disruptive. Virginia bills to that effect were vetoed by the British Privy Council. Rhode Island forbade the import of enslaved people in 1774. All of the colonies except Georgia had banned or limited the African slave trade by 1786; Georgia did so in 1798. Some of these laws were later repealed.^[19]

A total of about 600,000 enslaved people were imported into the Thirteen Colonies and the U.S, constituting 5% of the twelve million enslaved people brought from Africa to the Americas. The great majority of enslaved Africans were transported to sugar colonies in the Caribbean and to Brazil. As life expectancy was short, their numbers had to be continually replenished. Life expectancy was much higher in the U.S. and the enslaved population also reproduced;