EMERGENCE OF USA
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND ITS IMPACT
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The South knew slaves would have a hard time finding jobs
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The South wanted to train the slaves more before they freed them.
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The South punished the slaves for not helping to fight in the war.
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The South’s economy needed an inexpensive labor force.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Defenders of slavery argued that the sudden end to the slave economy would have had a profound and killing economic impact in the South where reliance on slave labor was the foundation of their economy. The cotton economy would collapse. The tobacco crop would dry in the fields. Rice would cease being profitable.
Detailed explanation-2: -Former slaves would now be classified as “labor, ” and hence the labor stock would rise dramatically, even on a per capita basis. Either way, abolishing slavery made America a much more productive, and hence richer country.
Detailed explanation-3: -The reality is that the North’s opposition to slavery was based on political and anti-south sentiment, economic factors, racism, and the creation of a new American ideology.