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Because the South was much more dependent on slave labor than were the North.

The South was known for its enormous plantations (most commonly, cotton), and slave labor was the only way to tend to those plantations without spending large amounts of money on hired hands. The elimination of slave labor would have driven the South into an economic crisis.

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