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people had less slaves
African-American slaves in America ate what was given to them---little---or grew crops such as squash, corn, and beans. They didn't have it well until Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation freed all slaves in the Union.
Slaves grew rice in swampy areas.
The South had to hire more slaves to pick the cotton. Therefore the population grew.
In 1609 the first slave was brought into the United States to the Jamestown Colony. From that point on the number of slaves grew. When the cotton gin was invented it grew and by 1750 the southern population was 35% slave.