You have the understand the slaves were experts at agriculture, even though they may not have had the ability to read and write they were experts in their field. The understood how to cultivate the land, they understood how to make the land work and it didn’t matter exactly what the weather was or where the land was located they knew how to make it work. So if those slaves had to opportunity to own the land they worked, economically it would have shifted the United States of America as we know it because now not only do they have the knowledge but they have the resources and financial power to grow that knowledge.
