Since the North began moving from an agricultural economy to an industrial economy, this created another major argument against slavery in the North. The South continued with an agricultural economy and mainly grew cotton, tobacco , and rice and sold them as cash crops. With the South being an agricultural economy, they strongly relied on slaves to work the field to produce these crops. When the Cotton Gin was invented, that increased the need for slave labor and slaves became very essential to the South’s economy. In contrast, the North’s economy was dependent on manufacturing. The need for slaves was not essential to the North because they had many immigrants from Europe that worked the factories to produce goods and textiles. With the increase
