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...reated down south. So basically, greed for money through free labor, supply and demand, and gun power is what created slavery. Even though not everyone owned slaves, one bad apple spoils the bunch. Hopefully people will learn from history, and immoral actions or events like slavery will not take place again. Slavery is one of this country’s most debated topics. In America’s history slavery and economics go hand in hand? The issue of slavery has been debated between the North and South since before the colonization of the thirteen colonies. The debate over the economic advantages of slavery in the South has raged ever since the first slaves began working in the cotton fields of the Southern States. The economic systems that dominated slavery reflected the transitions in Americas economic system. Initially, mercantilist views characterized the conduct of the slave trade. Between 1774 and 1804 all the northern states undertook to abolish slavery. At the outbreak of the Revolution, the United States contained about half a million slaves. Between the North and the South, on the eve of the Civil War the country held almost 4 million slaves, confined entirely to the South. Southern slaves were viewed in economic terms of labor to capital. While the ownership of slaves was a source of pride in plantation owners, this interdependence created a vicious cycle of rashness that caused slave owners to become irrational. Throughout history, slavery has created many issues. According to Abbott, from the beginning, slavery has divided the North from the South. The North wanted to limit the number of sl...