The small white planter and the free white laborer found the road to economic success had become much more difficult.

To be a successful planter meant that he had to begin with substantial capital investments.

Capitalist agriculture substantially altered the social structure of the colony.

On one hand, it created a small class of rich and powerful white planters.

On the other, it victimized the small white planters, or white laborers, and the ever-growing mass of African slaves.
The second unique factor in American slavery was the growth of individualism.