. A history of the United States. s of theSouth was very different. Some plantations contained many COLONIAL INDUSTRIES 125 thousand acres. The work of plowing, planting, hoeing, andgathering tobacco was done at first by indentured the eighteenth century it was done mostly by slaves. Asslaves were ignorant, an overseer for every twenty negroes wasnecessary. The profits were often large. A few planters aresaid to have made the greatsum of £20,000 to £80,000 ayear. But the method wasruinous, because no attemptwas made to put back into thesoil what the tobacco plantswere steadily taki
. A history of the United States. s of theSouth was very different. Some plantations contained many COLONIAL INDUSTRIES 125 thousand acres. The work of plowing, planting, hoeing, andgathering tobacco was done at first by indentured the eighteenth century it was done mostly by slaves. Asslaves were ignorant, an overseer for every twenty negroes wasnecessary. The profits were often large. A few planters aresaid to have made the greatsum of £20,000 to £80,000 ayear. But the method wasruinous, because no attemptwas made to put back into thesoil what the tobacco plantswere steadily taking out. Aftera time the fields were growing on the planta-tions of South Carolina wasnot so profitable, because ex-penses were greater. Low, wetfields were needed, and thelaborer must often stand in water or mud. The sun washot, and malaria was a common disease. If slaves sickenedand died, planters lost heavily. In the Piedmont region ofthe South the farms were often small, and the crops likethose raised in the Spinning Wheel and ColonialLoom
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