The Southern Colonies' economies were dominated by
- Acheck_circle
Cash-crop plantations (tobacco in Chesapeake; rice and indigo in the Carolinas) using enslaved labor
- B
Manufacturing of textiles and iron goods (in Virginia and the Carolinas) using free wage labor
- C
Whaling and cod fishing (off the Carolina coast) using free Native and African labor
- D
Shipbuilding and maritime trade (along the Chesapeake) using indentured European labor
Explanation
Plantation agriculture drove the demand for enslaved African labor.