Answer: pretty much was their main source of money they had slaves do all the work for them and they did it in a great amount of time. The buying of slaves was also cheap so they got slit of profit
The plantation system developed in the American South as the British colonists arrived in Virginia and divided the land into large areas suitable for farming. Because the economy of the South depended on the cultivation of crops, the need for agricultural labor led to the establishment of slavery.
