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Did slave owners pay slaves?
North Slave owners did pay their slaves, but south slave owners didn't. See the following link.
How was the demand for labor on the slave frontier met?
Slaves were sold in the South by owners in the border states.
What led to the decline of manumission in the south?
Manumission is the act of a slave owner freeing their slaves. Virginia's mandate that slave owners must pay for their slaves to be transported out the state led to the decline of manumission in the south.
Why did the south think slaves were so important?
In the ante-bellum South, slave labor was the basis for the agricultural economy, and it made plantation owners very rich.
What percent of whites in the South in 1860 were large landowners with dozens of slaves?
Small and large that had one slave was about 11%- most had paid off what their owners had paid for them. The "company store" towns had more in worse condition than the slaves in the south.
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