Social Studies: Why was slavery more likely to grow in the S. Colonies than in New England or Middle Colonies?
Northern farms put food on the table. Southern farms were an early form of agribusiness, exporting crops like rice and later cotton in large quantities. Those farms needed large labor forces. So the climate made the difference. Put a few John Deeres through a time machine, and the diesel to run them, and the southern colonies wouldn’t have had slavery, either.
