sugar
The South was a cash crop economy of cotton and tobacco.
Sugar..
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.
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.
Slave labor
Slave Labor was needed
The crop that primarily drove the transatlantic slave trade was sugar. The demand for sugar in Europe led to the establishment of large plantations in the Caribbean and the Americas, which required a large labor force to cultivate and harvest the crops, thus leading to the widespread use of African slave labor.
Sugar
The crop that most commonly led to the transatlantic slave trade from Africa was sugar. Its labor-intensive production in the Caribbean and the Americas required a large workforce, leading to the widespread use of enslaved Africans.
Settlers in Brazil grew sugarcane as their first crop. The crops were labor intensive which was a catalyst for bringing in slave labor.
corn
Slave labor was needed.
The demand for sugarcane as a cash crop in the Americas led to the intense labor needs on plantations, prompting European colonizers to turn to the transatlantic slave trade to meet these demands. This resulted in the forced migration of millions of African slaves to work on sugarcane plantations, forming a crucial aspect of the Atlantic slave trade.
Slave labor was needed
African crops such as rice, sugar, and indigo were exported during the triangular trade. These crops were grown on plantations using the forced labor of enslaved Africans and were sent to Europe and the Americas to fuel the transatlantic slave trade.
Both crops could be grown using the same labor force