Most of them are illegal immigrants hired to work for cheap pay and to work in terrible conditions.
New methods worked best on large farms, which could hire many workers and produce big harvests and more profits. This encouraged wealthy landowners to replace small farms with big ones.
Plantations
Plantations
Southern colonies had rich soil and warm climate
they used slavery
Because they had large farms and needed workers to work and collect the crops with no or little pay
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Southern plantations were large and needed many workers, but most southern colonists lived on small family farms. plantations, but small farms were much more common.
In the United States, most poor farmers have sold out to large corporations where the officials make millions and where the farms receive government subsidies. The large corporations do not need help. The people who need help are the migrant workers living on those factory farms who live 15 in a trailer.
Plantations
Southern plantations used slaves.
The southern farms had far more enslaved worker than the Northern farms because the Southern had more land and needed more work done on the plantations.