What was the country’s staple in the south before the great migration?

The country's staple in the South before the Great Migration was Cotton. The agriculture in the south was always driven by large-scale plantation to exportation. And the cultures more cultivated were Cotton, tobacco, and sugar. African-Americans, prior to the Great migration, used to work in the farm sector, particularly in the intensive labor crop of cotton. Either working under a sharecropper system or wage laborer.  

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