It no longer became based solely on the agriculture and the agriculture that was left was no longer dependent on slave labor
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an agriculture economy overly dependent on cotton and slave labor.
The South's economy was left devastated by the Civil War. Farming was less profitable. Infrastructure such as railroads needed to be repaired. At least a fourth of working-age white men were killed during the war, which cast many families into poverty.
deteriorated
well, first off Texas had seceded from the union so it was a confederate state that believed in slaver, therefore when the union won back the confederate states Texas was no longer a slave state because the union had abolished slavery.