By the 18th century Maryland had developed into a plantation colony, requiring vast numbers of field hands.

With the plantation colony, the powerful, rich country use the poorer country's land to grow crops.

Before the crisis, the commission system of trading prevailed in the southern plantation colonies.

The primary purpose of the trading post was to supply slaves for the plantation colonies in the Americas.

Like its larger neighbor, Virginia, Maryland developed into a plantation colony by the 18th century.

Still others were old plantation colonies in the West Indies and the Caribbean.

Most of the slaves were sent to Madeira, which became, after thorough deforestation, the first European plantation colony.

A century later, plantation colonies were established by the Dutch and English along the many rivers in the fertile Guyana plains.

During the eighteenth century the numbers of slaves imported into Maryland greatly increased, as the tobacco economy became dominant, and the state developed into a plantation colony.

Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations was founded by Baptists.