I. INTRODUCTION Before the Civil War the North prohibited slavery while the South did not. The North had no reason to use slaves, but in the South there were sugar and cotton plantations. So large plantation owners would buy around three to four hundred slaves to pick the cotton or cut down the sugar cane. The South would then sell most of the cotton to the British and that is why England allied with the …showed first 75 words of 4225 total…

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