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Slavery had been an integral part of the Southern plantation system since before the American Revolutionary War. The South became dependent upon the slave system, however, hindsight tells us that if slavery had never existed in North America, free workers would have worked in the cotton and tobacco fields. The South could not see that the plantations could be worked without slavery.

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