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Why was slave labor so important to the economy of the Southern colonies?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

In the south they had large farms called Plantations. The cotton industry spread and people needed help working but there weren't enough people to go around, so they started bringing in Africans to work as slaves. Slavery was encouraged by racism.

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