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How did the market economy and westward expansion intensify the institution of slavery?

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I would say that the market economy and westward expansion promoted the institution of slavery as in the new United States whereby in order to sell more say cotton at a cheap price (the market economy) then the landowners would employ slaves for cheap labour so as to extract maximum profit from their labour.
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