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How did slaves contribute to the economic success of the southern colonies?

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Slaves worked in fields to gather crops, which were given to the slave owner, and were sold by them as an ecinomic resource
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Slaves worked field and worked hard to get plants(like cotton) for their owners to sell. The more slaves there were, the more plants were picked, so the economy was better.
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