British in North America

The British colonies in North America started out as small settler colonies based mostly in the north. However as the colonies expanded, colonies developed in the south. The southern and northern colonies were based on very different things. The north was based on industry and other manufactured goods, while the south was based on staple crops and raw materials. Because the southern way of earning money was crops, the people in the south turned to African slaves as a cheap labor force. There were many different factors involved in this transformation into a slave society. There were several geographic, social, and economic factors that changed the south into a slave society.
The thing that begun the need for slaves was the geography. In the south the climate is the soil is good, per...