How Did Slavery Affect The South's Economy

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By the 1830s, cotton field stretched from Atlantic to central Texas. Pretty soon, the South was known as the cotton kingdom. The cotton kingdom was also a slave empire. Slave codes were laws that required total submission of slaves. Slave codes were put in law, because of the attack on slavery by slaves and northern abolitionists. Southern planters dominated the South’s economy. Plantation produced more than seventy-five percent of the South’s export crops. The economy from the North relied on agriculture, commerce and manufacturing. The economy of the South relied on agriculture. Paternalism were considered “Christian guardianship,” they claimed that that plantations benefited all. On exchange for slaves’ work and violence, their masters