Slaves proved cost-effective on big farms that could grow labor-intensive income crops like tobacco, sugar, and rice. Slavery had become mostly unprofitable in the North by the conclusion of the American Revolution and was gradually dying out.
Following the American Revolution, many colonists, especially in the North, where slavery remained relatively unimportant to the agricultural economy, began to equate the pain of enslaved Africans with their own British oppression and campaigned for the abolition of slavery.
Slavery's spread was a priority for the North. They also feared that creating another slave state would give the South a political advantage. The South believed that new states should be permitted to permit slavery if they so wished.
People were beaten and tortured in both the North and the South, and it was all horrifying in various ways." Because New England could not support the same number of large plantation-style farms as the South, most white slaveholders in the North had just one or two enslaved people.
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