1. Our PowerPoint Carnita Hailey and Darci Nolan

2. Tobacco Important in Virginia, Kentucky and parts of North Carolina and Missouri It required a long growing season and careful cultivation. For punishment some slaves had to inhale burning tobacco until they became nauseated.

3. Rice Rice production remained confined to the coastal waterways of South Carolina and Georgia. Rice plantations needed large labor forces to grow and harvest the crop and maintain the fields. By 1860 20 rice plantations had 300-500 slaves and 8 others had between 500-1000 slaves. The rice producing region employed more than 1000 slaves. Slaves who missed a days work risked forfeiting their weekly allowance

4. Sugar Sugar grew in a restricted region. Slaves cultiucited on plantations along the Mississippi River in Southern Louisiana. Sugar required a consistently warm climate, a long growing season, and at least 60 inches of rain per year. Sugarcane and refining sugar also required constant labor. Slave life on the sugar plantations was extremely harsh. Slaves did the work in hot and humid conditions. The Slaves worked on the Sabbath as if it was Monday or Thursday

5. Cotton Cotton was by far the South’s and the Country’s most important staple crop. More than 50% annually of dollar value of all U.S exports by 1860. Didn’t require cultivation as intensive as needed for tobacco, rice or sugar 1,815,000 out of 2,500,000 slaves were employed producing cotton by 1860. Cotton drove the South’s economy expansion westward