Answer: The economy in Colonial Georgia was mainly based off of plantations which grew indigo, rice, and sugar. Slavery did not come until James Oglethorpe took away the ban on slavery due to constant complaints from the settlers. Cotton picking did not come until later when the cotton gin was invented in 1793.
The only long term success with these early crops was with indigo. ... The wealth that was generated by these crops tempted Georgia colonists to try producing these on their own soil. In a time without machinery when colonial economies were based on agriculture, slaves were used to do most of the labor in the fields.
