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If you are a strong believer against racism this is a region where it was built on the backs of minorities, who have now become an equal in the world. Hold on to your tears this is the most horrifying story of the time era.
To the south lay the Carolinas and in the Deep South was Georgia , the last of the original thirteen colonies. Challenges from Spain and France led the king to desire a buffer zone between the cash crops of the Carolinas, which became Georgia. The economy of growing cash crops would require a labor force that would be unknown north of Maryland. Slaves and indentured servants, even though they were in the North, were much more important to the South. They were the backbone of the Southern economy. Europeans in the Southern colonies came to America to find money they could not find in Old England. The English countryside provided a grand existence of stately manors and high living. But rural England was full, in all aspects when it came to living space, not enough food, jobs and medicine to cure the disease. Outbreaks of malaria and yellow fever kept life spans lower. Since the northern colonies attracted religious dissenters, they tended to migrate in families. Such family connections were less prevalent in the South due to slave trade. When africans where brought to america many of them where beat and dehumanized. They lost their families, and everything they ever had when the europeans brought them here through the middle passage. The middle passage was gruling and the thing these people went through weren't anywhere near bad, they where horiffic. |
Tobacco"Tobacco was grown by American Indians before the Europeans came from England, Spain, France, and Italy to North America. Native Americans smoked tobacco through a pipe for special religious and medical purposes. They did not smoke every day. Tobacco was the first crop grown for money in North America."
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CottonOne of the reasons that the system of Cotton Plantations sprang up in the South was due to the climate of the regions. The Plantations required a subtropical atmosphere. Mild winters and hot, summers made it possible to grow cotton plants throughout the year which was ideally suited for these Plantations
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SlavesSlaves on plantations ment Cheap to free labor was important for the plantations to become profitable. The use of slaves in the plantations in the Southern colonies were extensive. After purchasing a slave little money was required to support the slaves. The millions of generations of slaves born on the slave plantations ensured that their masters gained new workers at no cost
The use of slaves kept the costs down on the Cotton Plantations. Slaves were not well fed, well housed or well treated. Slaves were sometimes expected to work 18 hours a day. Paid workers would have significantly reduced the profits made from the Plantations they were also known as house slaves. |