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Why did Southern slave owners resist any challenge to the institution of Slavery?

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Southern Slave owners largely resisted any changes to the institution of slavery as the vile institution of slavery was a guaranteed (almost) free source of labor and that enabled them to have a larger profit margin on their cotton.

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