USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Most favoured by slave owners were commercial crops such as olives, grapes, sugar, cotton, tobacco, coffee, and certain forms of rice that demanded intense labour to plant, considerable tending throughout the growing season, and significant labour for harvesting.

Detailed explanation-2: -By 1850, of the 3.2 million enslaved people in the country’s fifteen slave states, 1.8 million were producing cotton. By 1860, slave labor was producing over two billion pounds of cotton per year. Indeed, American cotton soon made up two-thirds of the global supply, and production continued to soar.

Detailed explanation-3: -Prominent crops included cotton, rubber, sugar cane, tobacco, figs, rice, kapok, sisal, and species in the genus Indigofera, used to produce indigo dye. The longer a crop’s harvest period, the more efficient plantations become.

Detailed explanation-4: -Tobacco was one of the most labor intensive and time-consuming crops grown in the American colonies.

Detailed explanation-5: -Slaves may have brought key cash crop with them. In colonial America, slaves from west Africa made many a plantation owner rich by growing a particular high-quality variety of rice.