Engerman has said about Southern planters seems to apply equally well to Northern agriculturalists: they were certainly not "non-calculating individuals not concerned with money." ... By 1860 the Northern share had dropped to 40 percent while the Southern proportion had actually increased slightly to 84 percent. ... The Southern lag in this category of development resulted not from any inherent economic disadvantages, not shortage of capital, nor low rates of return, nor non adaptability of slave labor, but from choices of Southerners who had money to invest it in agriculture and slaves r...

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At this time slavery was often seen as a temporary state that time or money could change, and cultural separation was more among class lines then race lines, a stark contrast to what later slave societies would create. ... Towards the end of the 17th century, an increasing reliance on labor-intensive cultivation of cash crops in the Chesapeake and extensive importation of slave labor directly from Africa, shaped slavery in the Plantation generation. ... As the numbers of European servants decreased, the number of slaves from Africa increased. ... Instead of providing basic necessities, master...

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