They feared that the Southern economy would be ruined if slavery was outlawed.
For the money and the slave labor; the same reason everyone else participated in the slave trade.
Slave trade was when people would buy slaves and have them work on their lands.
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profit,
The slave trade.
they protested that a ban would ruin the South's economy. Hope i helped :)
I think that mostly the Southerners were totally for slavery.
because they wouldn't trade but it was still allowed to have slaves
They had a whole list of reasons. Some were; Slavery was in the Bible, slaves were happier as slaves, slaves had food and a place to live otherwise they wouldn't have that. These things, of course, are excuses, but it is what they used to rationalize slavery.
David Eltis has written: 'Economic growth and the ending of the transatlantic slave trade' -- subject(s): Antislavery movements, History, Slave trade, Slave-trade
The northern states sacrifice to postpone a vote on ending the slave trade gained the southern states to aggree on the three-fiths compromise.
1793
Abolitionists
Slave families were separated, and members were sold to other plantations.
Missionary work Ending the slave trade
The transatlantic slave trade was officially abolished by various countries in the 19th century. The British Empire abolished slavery in 1833, and the United States passed the 13th Amendment in 1865, formally ending legal slavery. International pressure and abolitionist movements also played a significant role in ending the slave trade.
They threatened to leave the convention.