The economy of the Middle Colonies was not characterized by plantation agriculture. The Southern Colonies had an economy based on plantation agriculture.

It was a plantation economy that existed in colonial times

Colonialism in the Caribbean relied on plantation agriculture. When Europeans established the plantation economy, labor was missing from the Caribbean.

In the southern US States, the plantation economy flourished because of the soil's fertility and the warm climate. Two important crops were part of the plantation economy, cotton and tobacco. Each were in international demand. The advantage of working large plantations with slave labor also favored the plantation economy.

The Bahamas economy consist of plantation and farming