Where Did Most Enslaved Africans Work in North America?

Plantations of the American South

The vast majority of enslaved people were forced to labor on **plantations in the Southern colonies/states**—Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, later Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas. They cultivated **cotton, rice, tobacco, sugar, indigo** under brutal conditions. This plantation economy generated immense wealth for enslavers and underpinned the U.S. economy before the Civil War.