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How did economic, geographic, and social factors encourage the growth of slavery as an important part of the economy of the southern colonies between 1607 and 1775?

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The main economic factors that encouraged the growth of slavery was the heavily agricultural basis of the South's economy, which relied very much on slave labor. The geographic location of the southern colonies also made tobacco growth, and thus a demand for slaves high.