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Cotton had to be picked by hand and the invention of the cotton gin allowed for more cotton to be processed. Cotton is a versatile material and can be used by many industries especially textile and clothes.
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How many plantation owners in the south owned slaves?
Quite a few.
Plantation-system-of-the-south?
How many slaves were usually needed on a sugar plantation
Why did plantations in the south have slave labor?
They needed workers. The first slave arrived in 1619. Indentured servants didn’t work out very well because they often disappeared among the colonists, but an African American in the colonies stood out. All African Americans were slaves, so they could be stopped and questioned if they were off of the plantation. The plantations were huge acres of land so many people were needed. By 1860 there were 6 million slaves in the south in slavery.
Did all whites own some land and had slaves in the south?
ANSWER:Not all Whites in the South owned land, nor did they have slaves. Many Whites were just as poor as the Black slaves. Many had to hire themselves out to do work for the wealthy land owners.Some Whites were sharecroppers with powerful plantation owners. Of course the wealthy land owners would take advantage of the Whites, just as they did with their slaves.
How did the plantation system contribute to the use of enslaved people?
Many slaves in the South were put to work on plantations before and during the Civil War. Many of these plantations were used to grow tobacco.
How many plantation owners in the south owned slaves?
Quite a few.
How many slaves were on Laura Plantation?
The exact number of slaves who were on Laura Plantation varies, but historical records indicate that it housed around 159 enslaved individuals at its peak in the mid-1800s.
Why were many slaves needed in tobacco plantations?
A typical tobacco plantation would use 100 slaves to work the fields. The south had over 2,320,000 slaves that was over 47 percent of its total population.
Why keep slaves?
The South's economy was a farming economy. Many plantation owners relied on slaves work on the plantations.
Plantation-system-of-the-south?
How many slaves were usually needed on a sugar plantation
How many slaves lived on one plantation?
Know more than 500 slaves lived ina plantation
Why did slavery and the plantation system develop in the south?
Slavery developed in the South because the ground was for farming. Soil was very good for farming unlike many places in the North. Since farming was very good to do they needed a laborers. Slaves had to come to farm. people became indentured servants, which are servants that volunteer to work for seven years for free passage contract labor. soon they had slaves and the slaves became to work for them for life so the indentured slaves weren't needed anymore and the slaves became very valuable to the slave owners
What is the difference between yeomen and plantation owners?
Yeomen did not own slaves and were poor while plantation owners were rich and owned many slaves.
Why were there so many slaves in the south?
Because in the south there were a lot of rice and tobacco crops to be picked,therefore the farmers needed slaves to work on the field and farm.
What are two differences between yeoman and plantation owners?
Yeoman were small-scale farmers who typically owned their own land and worked alongside their family, while plantation owners were wealthy individuals who owned large tracts of land and enslaved laborers to work on their plantations. Yeoman typically focused on subsistence agriculture or small-scale cash crops, while plantation owners produced cash crops on a large scale for commercial profit.
Why did many former slaves object to plantation farming?
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I live and a colony that uses slave on rice plantation many English settlers and slaves came here from Barbados in the Caribbean where do I live?
South Carolina
