1 Take the mattress for a test drive. 2  When shopping for a mattress, try to lie on the mattress in the store for at least 10 to 15 minutes. 3  Don't feel self-conscious or let the salesperson hurry you along. 4  It's a big purchase, and if you don't try it for at least 10 minutes you're not going to get a real feel for it.
Originally, African slaves were brought to the Americas to supply labor for the (1 point)sugarcane plantations. rubber plantations.
Well over 90 percent of African slaves were imported into the Caribbean and South America. Only about 6 percent of imports went directly to British North America. Yet by 1825, the U.S. had a quarter of blacks in the New World. The majority of African slaves were brought to British North America between 1720 and 1780.he median size of slaveholdings ranged from approximately 25 slaves in the tobacco regions of Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina, to 30-50 slaves in upland cotton regions. Plantations in the Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia and the sugar parishes of Louisiana averaged 60-80 slaves.