USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Many southern planters became very wealthy exporting these cash crops to other colonies and countries. Planters found, however, that tobacco and rice needed much more work and care than other crops. Planters used indentured servants and enslaved Africans to do this hard labor.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Southern economy was almost entirely based on farming. Rice, indigo, tobacco, sugarcane, and cotton were cash crops. Crops were grown on large plantations where slaves and indentured servants worked the land.

Detailed explanation-3: -This article describes the plantation system in America as an instrument of British colonialism characterized by social and political inequality. It links the agricultural prosperity of the South with the domination by wealthy aristocrats and the exploitation of slave labor.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Origins of American Slavery Most of those enslaved in the North did not live in large communities, as they did in the mid-Atlantic colonies and the South. Those Southern economies depended upon people enslaved at plantations to provide labor and keep the massive tobacco and rice farms running.

Detailed explanation-5: -Tobacco Plantations Tobacco was the first plantation crop raised by the Southern colonies. The first Southern plantations were worked by Indentured servants the massive sizes of the plantations needed more and more labor. Work on the tobacco plantations required slaves.