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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zowert" data-source="post: 5649733" data-attributes="member: 71957"><p>Slavery was definitely a factor, however it wasn’t the only one. Using slavery to cultivate cotton was slow and inefficient, many of the southerners knew this. Europe’s demand for the southern state‘s cotton ultimately lead to better farming technology, which eliminated the need for slavery. However you are right, there were still a lot of southerners that wanted to keep and own humans. It was disgusting.</p></blockquote><p></p>