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Why was slave labor so important to the economy of the southwestern colonies

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it was very profitable

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Slavery was so profitable, it sprouted more millionaires per capital in the Mississippi River valley than anywhere in the nation. With cash crops of tobacco, cotton and sugar cane,

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