Question

How did the practice of slavery influence life in the southern colonies?

- African American-Owens businesses contributed to colonial wealth.

- An agrarian economy developed based on the plantation system.

- Textile industries relocated to the South where slavery provided free labor.

- The southern colonial economy grew wealthy from trading enslaved people.

Please choose one of those ^^

Answer 1

D

Step-by-step explanation:

Historians say that people who were rich enough to own many slaves became leaders in their local areas. Slave owners had the time and the education to greatly influence political life in the southern colonies, because the hard work on their farms was done by slaves. Today, most people in the world condemn slavery.