Why Did The South Need Slavery

The South had many arguments regarding the fact that they needed slavery and that it wasn’t as bad as people pictured it to be. For starters, the fact that the South depended on slavery was the number one reason why they didn’t want slavery to be abolished. The Southern economy would go down the drain because they depended on slave labor. Without the slaves there would be no one to work the fields. The cotton economy would collapse, the tobacco crop would dry, and the rice would be profitable. They also said that slavery existed throughout history and that it was part of the natural being of mankind. Not only did Americans have slavery but also Greeks, Roman, and English people (1). To add to that idea they would say that in the bible in the