“Planters filled the law books with measures enhancing the master’s power over his human property and restricting blacks access to freedom” (Foner 139). This basically emphasized the fact that slaves had no rights. The slave codes and laws that were made kept the slaves under control and remained working on the crops. The southerners thought they were too good to work so when the Navigation Act was passed, they used the slaves as a source of work to make their profits. Anyone outside of white color was seen as black slaves and socially inferior to the whites. They felt the blacks had no chance at all and had no intellect. It was obvious the whites are superior to the blacks and had no social status at this period in time. Slavery was definitely an important factor of the southern colonies in all ways economically, geographically, and socially. Through the use of the slave trade and triangular trade, slaves were delivered coast to coast enabling these colonies to put farms to use and put these slaves to work. The southerners main goal was to make a profit and they did through the use of slaves. This allowed the economy to prosper and slavery really did play a vital role in the southern