Explain 2 things southerners said to defend their support for slavery me

1. Southerners argued that the sudden end to the slave economy would have had a profound and killing economic impact in the South
2. The cotton economy would collapse
3. The tobacco crop would dry in the fields.
4. Rice would cease being profitable.
5. Defenders of slavery argued that if all the slaves were freed, there would be widespread unemployment and chaos.
6. Killing slavery would lead to uprisings

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