Trade was essential to the prosperity of the southern colonies. Thriving planters built their own docks where English vessels unloaded supplies and took aboard the annual crop of tobacco, usually packed in hogsheads.
Trade was essential to the prosperity of the southern colonies. Thriving planters built their own docks where English vessels unloaded supplies and took aboard the annual crop of tobacco, usually packed in hogsheads.
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