Slaves grew rice in swampy areas.
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In the south, slaves were used mainly for farming. The southern colonies' staple crop was rice. The middle colonies' staple crop was tobacco.
Slaves were expensive and cotton was a very hard crop to raise and maintaine. If a harvest of cotton failed it would negativiley impant the Souths economy.
king cotton
Potatoe/Potato
cotton (a cash crop) tobaco