Southern planters required a low cost source of labor to harvest crops. As a result, they became customers of the Triangular Slave Trade and introduced African slaves into the colonies. These slaves, from various parts of Africa, contributed to the culture of the south and helped to make it ethnically diverse.
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The need for agricultural workers in the early southern colonies lead to the practice of slavery. Slavery remained a contentious issue until the end of the Civil War in 1865.
The need for enslaved Africans in the Southern colonies in America stemmed from the lack of local labor at cotton plantations. Because of this, slaves became a low cost way to make the fields produce the large amounts of cotton demanded by Europe.
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