Without a doubt, the United States has never really lived up to the ideals of the Declaration. Historians, myself included, are quick to point out that Thomas Jefferson enslaved several hundred human beings when he crafted the Declaration.
One feature setting the southern colonies from the middle colonies was that the southern colonies had many enslaved workers.
The slavery in the colonies was mostly practiced in the South. These southerners needed cheap labor because their soils were very fertile.
These people in the South had large farm plantations that they used the slaves to work on. The slaves were used to work on rice, cotton, tobacco, and corn fields.
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