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what was the principal difference between the slave economies of the chesapeake (upper south) and the south carolina-georgia lowlands?

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While most enslaved people in the Chesapeake labored on small farms, many of those in South Carolina lived on large plantations with a large number of slaves. By 1750, one third of all low-country South Carolina slaves lived on units with 50 or more slaves.
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