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The main thing that was grown in the South was cotton because it was worth a lot of money. Also tobacco was sold right after it was grown.

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Slaves enabled southern plantation owners to obtain wealth by growing sugar indigo and what?

Cotton.


Where did slaves live in the southern plantation?

Slave Quarters


What did southern plantation owners use instead of money?

slaves, crops


How did the southern colony make a living?

The Southern Colonies made a living by growing cash crops like tobacco and indigo and by using slaves for cheap labor. In the south they used the plantation system in which many of the plantations were self-sufficient.


What purpose did spirituals serve on southern plantation?

Spirituals were used in worship by African-American slaves on southern plantations. They were also used to deliver messages that the slaves did not want the plantation owners to understand.


Often the most dangerous tasks on a southern plantation were given to the?

strongest slaves


The most dangerous tasks on a southern plantation were given to the?

strongest slaves


What did southern plantation owners use insted of money?

Tools to use against slaves.


How did southern plantation children learn?

Child slaves in southern plantations were not allowed to read or wright. Some house slaves (even if it was illigal) were taught to read by the masters wife.


Who depended mostly on slaves in the southern colonies?

slave owners, slave traders, and plantation owners.


Who beniffited from the slave trade?

The southern plantation owners who needed a lot of slaves to pick cotton.


In the Americas most African slaves were sold to work .?

They worked in southern plantation states.