Spain brought slaves into the Mississippi territory in the early 1700s. The Choctaw, a tribe of Native Americans who were agriculturalist shared their knowledge with settlers in the territory. Small farms sprang up along waterways that grew into agricultural plantations. This growth brought about the demand for forced labor, known as slavery. Plantation owners furnished housing, clothing, food and primitive medical care for slaves. While this era in history is a blight on our nation, it can be said that the use of forced labor sped up the birth pains of a nation that would have otherwise been a long and laborious process.
Followed by Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, slavery was abolished, and made illegal one-hundred and forty-seven years ago by the Thirteenth amendment in 1865.
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In early Virgina, people lived on scattered farms rather than towns. Tobacco farmers soon began founding large farms called plantations. These plantations were made possible in part by use of the headright system. Under this system, colonists who paid their own way to Virginia received 50 acres of land! Colonist participated in plantations so they could make tobacco and earn land.
The plantation system was developed in the Southern colonies of the US. A plantation system/economy is an economy based on agricultural mass production, usually of a few staple products grown on large farms called plantations.
The rich soil of Virginia was well suited for large scale farming.
increase in tobacco growth called for more labo, bringing in slaves to work the plantations, the carolinas had close economic ties with the sugar islands, rice=principle export crop, called for more slaves, slavery found in all plantation colonies,
The plantation system was first developed by Portuguese explorers in West Africa.
The plantation system of the south had been built on slavery, in many Southerners feared that their economy couldn't survive without it.
The plantation system was developed in the Southern colonies of the US. A plantation system/economy is an economy based on agricultural mass production, usually of a few staple products grown on large farms called plantations.
The overwhelming majority of slaves were field hands, picking cotton and planting and harvesting rice, tobacco, and sugar cane. The occupational distribution of slaves reflected the nature of the economy and society of the South.
The overwhelming majority of slaves were field hands, picking cotton and planting and harvesting rice, tobacco, and sugar cane. The occupational distribution of slaves reflected the nature of the economy and society of the South.
They worked the enslaved Africans harder on the fields. The southern economy came to depend on slavery.
Plantation system and growing of cotton, indigo, rice, tobacco.
The rich soil of Virginia was well suited for large scale farming.
Tobacco and cotton.
The South
The South
The plantation system was the division of the land into smaller parcels that were under private ownership. The plantation system started in Virginia.
increase in tobacco growth called for more labo, bringing in slaves to work the plantations, the carolinas had close economic ties with the sugar islands, rice=principle export crop, called for more slaves, slavery found in all plantation colonies,
A market economy is necessary for a capitialist system.