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In Colonial America, slavery became very popular in the South. It was a big lead to the dividing of the North and South. That wasn't the only thing that divided the North and South. There were many differences in North and South, Colonial America. In the following paragraphs you will read about the Slave Immunity and why the Plantation owners picked African Americans and not Native Americans. Also what the differences were between North and South.

When the plantations first started the workers were indentured servants, which means that the plantation owners paid for the servants to come to the colonies, from England, to work on the plantation for seven years or so. After that the servants recieved corn, cloths, and a little bit of land, but after Bacon's Rebelion that's when the plantation owners went to African American slaves. Before the Africans the plantation owners tried Native Americans to work on the plantations, but they did not immune well to all the different diseases there in the colonies. The African slaves were to be easier to be incontrol of, and they were immuned to the deadly diseases. As more and more slaves were brought the more fashionable so everyone wanted an African American slave, but only the wealthy could afford them.

What were the differences that divided the North and South colonies? In the North they did farming, shipping, and fishing. Were in the South all the did was plantation, and shipping of the crops off they're plantations. In the North it was a law that children were to be sent to school, but in the South the children didn't go to school; they just stayed home and learned how to run the plantation. Also the roads in both were