England's southern colonies in North America developed a farm economy that could not survive without slave labor. Many slaves lived on large farms called plantations. These plantations produced important crops traded by the colony, crops such as cotton and tobacco.
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Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries people were kidnapped from the continent of Africa, forced into slavery in the American colonies and exploited to work as indentured servants and labor in the production of crops such as tobacco and cotton.
The crusades had a huge financial impact on the fudal system as lords and Barrons sold assets and much of their property to Finance crusading, Manny of these men died and left their families in debt, those that were too old for war lost sons an heirs also leaving behind bebt, this led to what we would now call a great recession.