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Why did slavery grow in the southern colonies?

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England's southern colonies in North America developed a farm economy that could not survive without slave labor. Many slaves lived on large farms called plantations. These plantations produced important crops traded by the colony, crops such as cotton and tobacco

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they needed slave a lot

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