During the seventeenth and eighteenth century tobacco was a high cash crop. This crop was the main source in other agricultural demands, trade, and slave labors. As a matter of fact Thomas Jefferson and George Washington were both owners of tobacco plantations. As English farmers began to increasingly use tobacco products, tobacco became the major crop in American colonies near the Chesapeake Bay. In addition many plantations began to build a long the rivers in Virginia to keep a social growth in this cash crop. Although tobacco plantations required a high demand of work, this then triggered a major change in history. As many farmers would higher servants and pay them for their labor many farmers began to use slaves instead. By doing so many farmers saved money in the labor, but it also increased the amount of slaves being transported in the triangular trade. Many Virginians believed that slaves were the answer to tobacco plantations; after all they could not have their servants work for them as Columbus did. However as a note, white servants did not provide the needed support to grow this particular crop, and many Virginians believed African Americans could since they had just learned how to grow the crop. …show more content…
The social views were of the village and the church as the center of life. In addition, the southern colonies grew tobacco, cotton, indigo, and wood products. The social views were mostly about slavery and there were not that many schools and cities. With this said, the slaves that were indifferent parts of America grew with different manners, as the some just focused on fishing, timber, and other places such as the south just focused most on the cash crops and practiced farming a lot more than focusing on schools and trying to educated the