YES, sad to say. They were used to help mend to the crops of tobacco and others.
Apple never used slave labor
Many colonies in the Americas used slave labor for farming, but notably the southern colonies of British North America, such as Virginia and South Carolina, relied heavily on enslaved Africans to work in their tobacco and rice fields.
Slave labor was used to a greater extent in the Southern colonies of British North America, particularly in regions such as Virginia, South Carolina, and Georgia. The plantation economy in these areas, reliant on cash crops like tobacco, rice, and indigo, led to a high demand for enslaved labor.
They used slave labor to produce cash crops.
At the beginning of the US Civil War Deleware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri and West Virginia used slave labor. Washing DC also had legal slavery. This was an embarrassing issue for President Lincoln.
They used slave labor to produce cash crops.
They used slave labor to produce cash crops.
They used slave labor to produce cash crops.
They used slave labor to produce cash crops.
They used slave labor to produce cash crops.
They used slave labor to produce cash crops.
They used slave labor to produce cash crops.