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The Draft.
The industry was the main source of labor for the North.
The basic problem with labor in the South after the Civil War was that nobody was around to do it. The South was very rural and without any slaves around, it was hard to find workers.
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It wasn't that slaves were killed during the war, but some were forced to fight during the war.