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Why did slavery develop in the American colonies in the mid 1600s?

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The plantation system developed in the American South as the British colonists arrived in Virg inia and divided the land into large areas suitable for farming. Because the economy of the South depended on the cultivation of crops, the need for agricultural labor led to the establishment of slavery.

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