jadon.civilwar.slavery

Slavery In 1793 slavery grew bigger because farmers wanted them to work in the cotton fields. Slavery grew rapidly in the 1790, there were about 700,000 enslaved people in the south. After the war for indopendence the north stoped slavery but the south kept useing there slaves. Farmers used there money from cotton to buy slaves. in 1831 an enslaved slave african american named Nat Turner led a rebellion aginst slave oweners. Him and his followers killed 59 slave owners before being stoped by a local militia. Slavery became a deep conflict between the north and the south. North did not want slaves but the south said slaves were to inportant to them. North said it kept the economy from growing faster. They also belived it was unfair and wrong.