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African slaves in the colonial south were to ?

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About 85 percent lived in the Southern Colonies. Enslaved Africans made up about 40 percent of the South's population. the growth of slavery allowed plantation farming to expand in South Carolina and Georgia. And because they had more slaves, they could grow more tobacco,rice,or indigo to sell.
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the American colonies and exploited them to work as indentured servants and labor in the production of tobacco and cotton.black slaves worked mainly on the tobacco,indigo plantations of the southern coast and rice. Slavery itself was never widespread in the North, though many of the region’s businessmen grew rich on the slave trade and investments in southern plantations.

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