Identify and explain 1 reason why the institution of slavery was politically important to the South during the Antebellum period.

Slavery in the Antebellum Period

Slavery was a form of forced labor existing as a legal institution from the colonial period until the mid-nineteenth century.

nothing certain is known about what happened, but it seems that the country declined gradually, perhaps due to bad government, or, more likely, due to a series of bad harvests, which resulted in widespread and recurrent famine.