Woman could be paid less because they were thought to be inferior men. Children could be paid even less and could be worked for as long as the factory wanted. Plus children had nimbler fingers and could crawl into machines to fix them.
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The main reason was that it was cheaper. Females working outside the home was a fairly new idea and the owners exploited that by paying lower wages then they would have paid males.
Mainly the south. This was because the North had industries, but the South had more farmland. In order to handle enormous patches of farmland, you needed a work force. African-American slaves was their answer.
The white plantation owners wanted to save money by not paying their workers so they decided to buy slaves. In the 1600's and 1700's there were lots of slaves for sale in Africa so the white people bought slaves from other Africans.
The bourgeoisie is the middle class, a class between the laboring class and the wealthy or aristocracy. The middle class is made up of people who need education for their work, or who are owners of small businesses. They include shop owners, but also include teachers, officials, doctors, and lawyers.the owners and managers of the means of production
Because the farmers felt that they were being cheated by the railroad owners. The owners were allowed to choose the price of the shipping and also whether the crop would be shipped at all. The farmers felt that this was unfair and the only way to resolve it was to have the government own the railroads
Enslaved Africans were brought to Cuba to be sold to American plantation owners. These plantation owners would use the slaves to farm their land.