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Agriculture in the Old South was quite diverse.

In theChesapeake Society, tobacco was one of their best commercial crops.

The Carolina Society was slave-based, and had rice and indigo, and earlier on, hemp.

Although those are some of the more prosperous crops, they also had a lot of corn, as that was part of their primary diet, among other vegetables on a smaller scale.

Planters were not the majority of southerners, but rather Yeoman farmers - those who had smaller farms, perhaps either none or only a few slaves.

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