northern farms were mainly family farms southern farms more like plantations where based on a slave economy
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Plantations usually owned slaves who worked the land while many small farmers did their own work. Plantation owners lived in large houses while small farm owners lived in one-story homes. Also plantations looked like villages because they had many buildings and families living on the property unlike small farms. Plantations also had a building just for the kitchen unlike small farms.
cash crops
plantations and large family farms
The southern farms had far more enslaved worker than the Northern farms because the Southern had more land and needed more work done on the plantations.
the replacement of large plantations with smaller farms (novanet)
The plant indigo the people of the southern colonies used is grown on large farms.