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because unlike the North the south didn't have the right economic system for it to have factories. The South was not industrialized like the North was, therefor it had slaves. also it had large plantations of cotton and other plants, that farmers couldn't harvest alone so they used slaves.

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Dependency on slave labor increased in the Southern colonies because these colonies grew more crops. They needed free labor to make the most money.

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Because of the Cotton Farming among other things. The climate was ripe for that kind of crop.

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