With the shift to a plantation economy, slaves were imported from Africa.
As the sugar industry began to wane, the plantation economy came to an end.
North Carolina was somewhat less involved in the plantation economy, but because a major producer of naval stores.
The Spaniards created a plantation economy on the island.
The tourism sector paid better, and the plantation economy could only expand so far.
Slaves whose labor was used to fuel the plantation economy rebelled in 1848.
A variety of other crops make up the rest of the plantation economy.
This included the plantation economy in states such as Georgia, and the possession of slaves.
His objective was to develop the plantation economy of Lower Louisiana.
It was this forced labor that provided the basis for development of a plantation economy and, by the mid-20th century, a major mining sector.