At first, tobacco was grown mostly on plantations in Carolina that required many workers. Instead of hiring colonists, rich plantation owners relied on the labor of enslaved African people. These people were deprived of their freedom and forced to work. They planted, tended and harvested tobacco on plantations. Small family farms began growing tobacco and it became a major source of money for many colonists. Select the sentence from the article that suggests plantation owners forced people to work in the fields.