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The cotton industry depended totally on slave-labour, and as cotton became more and more profitable, Southern leaders fought hard to hold back the tide of Abolitionism, promoting slavery as a beneficial system, and eventually putting pressure on church ministers to preach that it was a God-given arrangement of master and man.

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