Explain why the southern colonies developed an economic system that relied on slavery

England's southern colonies in North America developed a farm economy that could not survive without slave labor. Many slaves lived on large farms called plantations. These plantations produced important crops traded by the colony, crops such as cotton and tobacco.

Explanation:

b or c im pretty sure

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