Approximately 75% of the slave population lived on plantations in the South by the mid-19th century.
The US southern states depended so much on agriculture. And for agriculture to be a great business, they needed slavery. Most of the slaves in America were working in the southern plantations by the mid.19th century. Slaves were not considered humans, they were considered property. Southerners enforced slavery of black people by violence and punishment.
It was in the colony of "New Jersey" that <span>the Quakers purchased land from lord John Berkeley, since this became the Quaker colony of "West New Jersey". </span>
