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Describe why slaves were utilized as forced labor in the Southern colonies.

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The Origins of American Slavery

Most of those enslaved in the North did not live in large communities, as they did in the mid-Atlantic colonies and the South. Those Southern economies depended upon people enslaved at plantations to provide labor and keep the massive tobacco and rice farms running

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Slaves were used for many different things, the most common being that they were used to work on farms and for nobility.

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