d were agricultural goods. Many grew under tropical conditions in which European workers could not thrive, or often even have much prospect of survival. Moreover, the abundance of available unused land (once Indians had been driven away or killed by the colonists) meant that a poor European colonist-could enjoy greater independence, and eat just as well, by subsistence-farming in the interior rather than by working in the plantation cash-crop economy
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