9.
AFRICANS AND ATLANTIC CREOLES,
ENSLAVED AND FREE (cont'd)
More People of Color Enter New York
The shortage
of laborers in a rapidly developing economy encouraged the acceptance
and proliferation of race-based slavery. During the colonial period, most
of the enslaved people in New York came from West Africa or the West Indies.
In colonial America in general, nearly half of the Africans taken to the
Western Hemisphere came from the coasts of present-day Ghana, Togo, and
Benin.
