Explanation:
Most of the slaves held by West Africans in the late 1800s used to grow food crops. The chapter of slavery in America started in 1619 when 20 salves were brought by the The White Lion in Virgina.
In the 17th and 18th centuries, black slaves worked basically on the tobacco, rice, and indigo plantations of the southern coast, from the Maryland and Chesippe Bay colonies to Georgia in the south.