The Plantation System Of The Cotton South Was. Slaves were in the fields from sunrise to sunset and at harvest time they did an eighteen hour day. Thus the plantation system could be profitable even when it's literally killed of its own workers.
As cotton gained economic supremacy in the south, the north was transforming itself into an urbanized, industrial society with economic interests at variance with. The plantation system peaked in the first half of the 18th century, but later on, during the middle of 19th century, there was a significant increase in demand for cotton from european countries, which means there was a need for expanding the plantation in the southern parts of united states. Because the economy of the south depended on the cultivation of crops, the need for agricultural labor led to the establishment of slavery.
The development of the plantation system.
Though wealthy aristocrats ruled the plantations, the laborers powered the system. B) efficient at utilizing natural resources. L2 l2 section 396 chapter 11 north and south take different paths! James irwin finds that the decline in per capita output in the south between 1860 and 1880 is better explained by the end of the gang labor system than the increase in leisure time taken by former slaves.
