Slavery

Between 1607 and 1775, slavery was an important part of the southern economy. It eventually became the most common form of labor in the southern colonies. The economic, geographic, and social factors promoted the growth of slavery and enabled slavery to play a major role in the economy of the south. The economy of the south was growing at a rapid pace. Tobacco became a major export of the southern colonies. As the cultivation of tobacco became …

…slavery was promoted by the economic, geographic, and social factors in the southern colonies. Since the south had such enormous plantations, they needed labor to cultivate their fields. Slavery lasted in the southern colonies because the slaves were a permanent solution to the problem of finding labor. As people became more highly educated, they despised slavery because they felt it was morally wrong to enslave anybody, no matter what their ethnic origins, religion, or color.