The slaves provided free labors for the wealthy planters and they were not willing to let them go because of their conversion to Christianity. In fact, they were able to change the reason behind the exploitation by stating that, “Even person who can prove that they were not captured in war and that they accepted the Catholic Faith this still could not change their appearance” (Robin, Kelley & Lewis, 2005, p. 65). Therefore, instead of suffering a major loss to their economy, they made color the key factor for slavery. In which, this impacted their economy because the dark-skinned slaves work in the silver mines and on the sugar plantations and this could be exploited for life because the enslave people’s children would automatically inherit the same unfree status as their parents and this would reward the Europeans investors. (Robin, Kelley & Lewis, 2005, p. 65). In short, competition grew intense and pushed up the volume of transatlantic trade from Africa and drove down the cost of individual Africans in the New World as the price in of labor in Europe was on the rise (Robin, Kelley & Lewis, 2005, p. …show more content…
Up to this point, slaves were kept in bondage and were gradually push their way toward freedom and religion played a major role. Therefore, during the mid-eighteenth century known as the Great Awakening some black Americans started to embraced Christianity as black preachers started to appear in the year of 1743 rise and thousands of them converted (Robin, Kelley & Lewis, 2005, p. 90). Furthermore, wars started breaking out and freedom started become a reality for slaves. For instance, in 1739 there were forty thousand African Americans in bondage in South Carolina were aware of the Spaniards in Florida had offer freedom to slaves from the English colonies (Robin, Kelley & Lewis, 2005, p. 93). Secondly, the whites became nervous when England and France fought in their war in 1750s in which, the white colonists became anxious because they feared the enslave African Americans seek to challenge their miserable conditions (Robin, Kelley & Lewis, 2005, p.