SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
COLONIES OF FRANCE ENGLAND
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on plantations
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at trades
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the lower South the majority of slaves lived and worked on cotton plantations.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Southern Colonies had an agricultural economy. Most colonists lived on small family farms, but some owned large plantations that produced cash crops such as tobacco and rice. Many slaves worked on plantations.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Upper South: Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Arkansas, Kentucky, and Tennessee, and the Deep South, including South Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi, are where most large southern plantations were located.
Detailed explanation-4: -Slavery in the South At that date, 293, 000 slaves lived in Virginia alone, making up 42 percent of all slaves in the U.S. at the time. South Carolina, North Carolina, and Maryland each had over 100, 000 slaves.
Detailed explanation-5: -Plantation slaves lived in small shacks with a dirt floor and little or no furniture. Life on large plantations with a cruel overseer was oftentimes the worst.