You buy slaves to pick the crops for you. that way when you sell the crops you dont have to use part of the crop money to pay the workers...?
sugar
cotton
A cash crop.
the cash crop are the main source of earning foreign exchange
When you sell that crop or grow it to sell
Rice was the most profitable cash crop.
Slave labor
The man who was in charge of ensuring a profitable crop for a plantation master was called overseer. The most powerful weapon the plantation masters had was the threat of sale.
Tobacco was the most profitable cash crop in the Virginia colony sold to England
The most profitable cash crops in the southern colonies were tobacco, rice, and indigo. These crops helped drive the economy of the region and required a large amount of labor, leading to the growth of plantation agriculture and the reliance on enslaved labor.
Overseer
plantation
Tobacco
there is not that much plantation
The most profitable crop on 10 acres depends on the land and the location being used for farming. Midwestern states such as Illinois claim that corn is the most profitable crop.
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Tobacco was the "cash crop" of the Virginia Colony during the 17th century.