The southern planters saw Florida as valuable in the early 19th century because the soil in Florida was very good for agriculture. The Natives made it hard to secure by causing issues and fights in the areas.
The southern planters who are also known alternatively in the U.S. as the Southern aristocracy were a racial and socioeconomic caste of pan-American society that dominated 17th and 18th-century agricultural markets. The Atlantic slave trade permitted planters access to inexpensive African slave labour for the planting and harvesting of crops such as tobacco, cotton, indigo, coffee, tea, cocoa, sugarcane, sisal, oil seeds, oil palms, hemp, rubber trees, fruits.
Planters were considered part of the American gentry.
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