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Picking cotton

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You can't grow cotton in New England. The soil's terrible and half the year its too cold for anything to grow. There were no slaves used in Massachusetts in bulk, aside from a few exceptions scattered across the colony.

Edit: Actually Massachusetts was the first slave holding colony and around 1750 had the largest number of slaves of any of the colonies. Slavery was practised in Massachusetts for about 170 years. Slaves participated in all sorts of labor in this northern state. That labor included being house slaves (cooking, sewing, cleaning and the like, being groomsmen, porters, and carriage drivers, being skilled laborers and artisans, assisting in various businesses as well as working as being forced farm workers.

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