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John Browns intent was to start a revolt by slaves, with the slaves killing their masters. This outraged many Southerners, and widened the division between North and South.
The Southerners did not feel good about the future of slavery
I know this answer, because i am studying for an AP us history exam. The answe is 0. Most families in the antebellum south (88%) owned no slaves at all!
Because the big slave owners usually were the owners of big cotton farms, which was the major - almost the only - export product of the Southern US States. Picking cotton at the time was a very labour-intensive job because it had to be done by hand before the invention of the cotton mill. Slaves were of course cheap labour, which was important to their owners as they had to compete against other low cost cotton-producing countries such as India and Egypt.
Africa.