Because there were no slaves available to harvest the tobacco.
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The colonies made England rich by making and providing it with goods. Goods like tobacco and cotton were imported to England for a low cost and helped to fuel England's industrial revolution.
The South was a cash crop economy of cotton and tobacco.
The discovery of tobacco as cash crop in Virginia made the colonies labor supply grow. Indentured servants were first brought in to work the fields but soon after that slaves from Africa were used.
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