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Which colonies had massive farms know as plantations and relied heavily on slave labor?

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The southern colonies were known for their cotton plantations.
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Many of the colonists who came to the southern colonies were rich aristocrats or businessmen from England and they wanted to become even more wealthy from owning land. The flat land was good for farming and so the landowners built very large farms called plantations.

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