The cotton industry assured that slavery would remain an important part of Southern life well into the 1800s. What factors may have contributed to the industrialization and ending of slavery in the North while the South remained agricultural and still had slavery?

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Gianna Golden

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4 December, 01:29

The cotton industry assured that slavery would remain an important part of Southern life well into the 1800s. What factors may have contributed to the industrialization and ending of slavery in the North while the South remained agricultural and still had slavery?

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Rebecca · Answer 1

Climate in the South was suitable for large cotton plantations and the South already had a large slave population to do labor rather than needing industrialization to produce goods also t he North did not have as large a slave population as the South, even from the beginning of the colonies.

Dirty Harry · Answer 2

The south had more crops and work in Fields which required more people to work on them, in this case they used slaves.