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What role did slavery play in southern plantation economy?

Asked by twitard123 2 months ago, 4 answers.

Answered by pussikatt on Sep 16, 2009, 05:34PM
217 answers

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it helped because slaves wer free workers
good for poor whites
the cotton gin helped slaves clean more cotton a day
slavery was helpful because you didnt need to pay them?

Answered by sosf_wardog on Sep 16, 2009, 07:00PM
87 answers

Basically kept the souths economy alive by freeing up people to do other things. Very very productive, but very very wrong

Answered by masterreilly on Sep 24, 2009, 03:38PM
15 answers

although most farmers in the south did not own slaves, many of the richer and larger plantations used them for the majority of labor. slaves were expensive in short term but saved lots of money in the long term.

since they made up a 3rd of the population in the south at some points, the freeing of all slaves would have destroyed the southern economy and caused recession (which did happen in the south following the civil war)

Answered by coolguy97 on Sep 28, 2009, 10:20AM
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the reason it played a part in the economy is because the slaves were cheap labor, free. the owners just had to feed them. if they wanted to really.

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