What was the purpose of slavery from colonial times to the civil war?

To exploit others in order to obtain profit..

Explanation:

When you put other humans under slavery, you can force them to do anything you want without having to care about their rewards or general well being.

From colonial times to the civil wars, slavery were constantly used to obtain profit and reduce their expenditures.

The slaves were forced to work in extreme long hours without rewards by plantation owners in order increase their production. Even during the war, many slaves were used by the army to do dangerous jobs in order to cut down the casualties among their 'real' soldiers.

in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion

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