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In the U.S. South, enslaved labor was used to produce cash crops including tobacco, indigo, sugar, and cotton.
Unidentified speaker · Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires? · 1 Oct 2026
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“you can get the quick fix. You can put all your capital into buying slaves and have them work at providing cash crops,”
“which is tobacco,”
“the original one,”
“indigo and sugar,”
“cotton.”Play from 1:05:21Report a misattribution
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