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crop grown primarily for market
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cash crop
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large commercial estates where many workers lived on the land and cultivated the crops for the landowner
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Plantations
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Person who agreed to work for an employer in the colonies in exchange for passage to America
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Indentured servant
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Discovered suitable conditions for growing indigo, which became an important cash crop for South Carolina
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Eliza Lucas
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The wealthy landowners in the South
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Gentry
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System of farming in which farmers produce only enough crops to feed themselves and their families
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Subsistence Farming
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Governor of Virginia
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William Berkeley
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English trading company that engaged in the slave trade
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Royal African Company
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The journey of enslaved African across the Atlantic to America
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Middle Passage
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A set of laws that formally regulated slavery and defined the relationship between enslaved Africans and free people
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Slave Code
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