plantation farming of tropical cash crops such as sugar and pineapple required huge numbers of workers who labored long hours in hot climates. the need for labor in the Western Hemisphere turned slave trade into an industry.
Plantation farming of tropical cash crops.
Slave Labor ~
Slaves were just the workers
plantation farming of tropical cash crops such as sugar and pineapple required huge numbers of workers who labored long hours in hot climates. the need for labor in the western hemisphere turned slave trade into an industry.
in the southern colonies,the farming there was done on plantations. there were humongous plantations there. on the plantations, they grew cash crops. they grew crops such as indigo and rice. the most popular crop was tobacco. as jobs, people worded as ship builders, iron workers, slave catchers, and slave drivers.
The South was a cash crop economy of cotton and tobacco.
plantations
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
The Southern colonies, including Virginia, Maryland, and South Carolina, had many plantations that primarily produced cash crops such as tobacco, rice, and indigo. These plantations relied heavily on enslaved African labor to cultivate and harvest the crops.
rice
They were grown in the Southern Plantations
Plantations.