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How did farming continue to be profitable for landowners even after the end of slavery?
After the end of slavery, many landowners maintained profitability through sharecropping and tenant farming systems, which allowed them to retain control over land and labor without directly employing enslaved workers. By offering land to former enslaved people in exchange for a share of the crops, landowners could continue to exploit cheap labor while shifting the financial risks of farming onto the tenants. Additionally, the implementation of laws and practices, such as black codes, often restricted the economic mobility of African Americans, ensuring a labor force that remained dependent on landowners. Ultimately, these systems perpetuated a cycle of poverty and debt that benefited landowners economically.
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What made growing cash crops profitable for the South?
The practice of slavery made the growing of cash crops profitable in the South. It was decades after slavery that mechanization made it extremely profitable again.
What invention made slavery profitable in the South?
cotton gin
Was slavery expensive or profitable for the southern economy?
It was very profitable. It allowed the southern colonies to hold profitable tobacco planting. Off this staple crop, they made a lot of money.
What made slavery so profitable?
Slavery was so profitable, it sprouted more millionaires per capita in the Mississippi River valley than anywhere in the nation. With cash crops of tobacco, cotton and sugar cane, America's southern states became the economic engine of the burgeoning nation.
What crop that first made slavery profitable?
Slavery made all crops MORE profitable. If you're talking about America, slaves were brought to the Caribbean to cut sugar cane in droves. This is probably the biggest crop using most slaves initially. Cotton became a big slave labor driven industry in the 19th century for several reasons. However, slaves were initially and primarily owned and used as domestic helpers in the Americas. Only once certain industrial processes were invented and began to be applied to agricultural products such as cotton, which allowed its large scale PROCESSING, did the demand for the RAW cotton skyrocket and thus the demand for slaves to pick it increase as well. If I may say so, the question is backwards. Certain crops did not make slavery profitable, there had always been a market for slaves. It was Slavery which made certain crops profitable.
What made slavery profitable in the South?
because the slave owners would make alot of money from farming
What made growing cash crops profitable for the South?
The practice of slavery made the growing of cash crops profitable in the South. It was decades after slavery that mechanization made it extremely profitable again.
Why did the slavery trade operate?
The slavery trade operated and prospered because it was profitable.
Why did landowners in the chesapeake begin using chattel slavery?
They needed workers for their plantations.
What invention made slavery most profitable?
the cotton gin
What invention made slavery profitable in the South?
cotton gin
why did landowners in the Chesapeake colonies begin chattel slavery?
They needed more workers for their plantations.
What invention helped to keep slavery profitable in the South?
Cotton gin
Was slavery expensive or profitable for the southern economy?
It was very profitable. It allowed the southern colonies to hold profitable tobacco planting. Off this staple crop, they made a lot of money.
Did the middle colonies depend on farming and slavery?
No they did not
Why did the landowners in the Chesapeake colonies begin using chattel slavery?
They needed more workers for their plantations.
Why sharecropping was a new form of slavery?
It kept the black farmers poor and dependent on white landowners.
