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Which crop changed the British West Indies from a society of independent small landowners utilizing white servant labor to a society of large plantation owners utilizing black slave labor?
sugar
What was the major economy of the southern colonies?
The South was a cash crop economy of cotton and tobacco.
The origins of the atlantic slave trade were most strongly tied to what crop?
Sugar..
Why were Africans used as a source of labor in the Americas?
Because they were cheap labor. They wanted to be able to do unwanted work cheaply without doing it themselves. It started with indentured servants, which eventually lead to African slaves. they were mostly used in the south for the tobacco crops which the leaves had to be harvested by hand. The other main crop they were used for is cotton.
Why did the south depend on slave labor?
because unlike the North the south didn't have the right economic system for it to have factories. The South was not industrialized like the North was, therefor it had slaves. also it had large plantations of cotton and other plants, that farmers couldn't harvest alone so they used slaves.
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