LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
SLAVERY IN AMERICA COTTON SLAVE TRADE AND THE SOUTHERN RESPONSE
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Farmer Jones grows all the food for his family’s needs. He sells little or non of it to anyone.
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A plantation produces large quantities of sugar cane to sell to European exporters.
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The townsfolk have a well-developed barter system. One person has extra lumber, but wants meat to last the winter, so he trades some of his lumber to a hunter with extra meat.
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To support her family, Auntie Jem takes in laundry. She also makes soap and pies to sell at the local general mercantile.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Larger farms tend to grow cash crops such as coffee, tea, cotton, cocoa, fruit and rubber.
Detailed explanation-2: -Examples of typical food and non-food cash crops are cereals, oilseeds, coffee, cocoa, sugar cane, vegetables and fruits (e.g. avocado and oranges), peanuts, cotton and tobacco.
Detailed explanation-3: -Sugarcane. Cash crops are the crops that are produced for their commercial value rather than for use by the person growing them. Most common examples of cash crops are coffee, sugarcane, tobacco, etc.
Detailed explanation-4: -A cash crop is the one that is cultivated to be sold in the market to earn profits from the sale. Most of the crops grown today worldwide are cash crops cultivated for selling in the national and international markets.