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Southern colonies were given over to large-scale agricultural operations, what today we might call industrial agriculture, where large tracts of land were given over to a single cash crop such as tobacco, rice, sugar, or indigo. The most common crop was cotton. Instead of having machines to do the planting and harvesting, the work was done by armies of slaves.

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