During the 1800s, conditions on cotton plantations were typically not great for slaves. The owner would live in a big manor, while the slaves usually lived in shacks. Also, disease could spread very easily in slave quarters, so it was not a very safe place to live.
When you plant upland cotton, which is what most of the cotton plantations had, it destroys the topsoil. Tobacco plantations didn't destroy the land. The whole reason that they expanded westward was because they needed more soil to plant cotton on, because the soil they had was ruined.
obviously from the south where there were cotton plantations..
some plantations grow coffee,cotton,and tea for export
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the growth of cotton plantations and the invention of the cotton gin.
a larger percentage of female slaves-apex
slaves were used on plantations to grow and pick the cotton
Cotton & Tobacco
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Enslaved African people provided much of the labor on plantations in the Americas, working under brutal conditions to produce crops like sugar, cotton, and tobacco for European markets.
cotton because of the cotton gin.......................i think