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Why did southern plantation owners support slavery?
It cost less to buy slaves than to hire workers.
Slaves did a better job harvesting cotton, sugar cane, and tobacco than anyone else.
Slaves owned small parcels of land. Without them, the plantations would not be large enough to grow crops.
Owners did most of the work on plantations.

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Answer:

Slaves did a better job harvesting cotton, sugar cane, and tobacco than anyone else.

Explanation:

Slaves were extremely expensive, and majority of Southeners could not afford them. And they did better in picking plants with thorns, due to fear of violence! Make me brainlist please

Labors were better done with slaves around