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.
There was nothing especially new about slavery as a system of labor and the exploitation of people when the Spanish and the Portuguese first began bringing slaves in 1503 from Western Africa to replace Native Americans in the gold mines of the Caribbean and Central America.