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During industrialization, there were various attitudes toward the use of enslaved labor. While there were some who advocated for the abolition of slavery, there were also those who continued to defend the institution of slavery and sought to expand its reach into industrial labor.
In some areas, such as the southern United States, there was a continued reliance on enslaved labor in agriculture and other industries, even as industrialization was taking hold elsewhere. However, in many industrialized regions, including Britain and parts of the United States, there was a shift away from slavery and toward wage labor as the preferred mode of industrial production.
While some factory owners may have been opposed to the use of enslaved labor on moral or ethical grounds, the primary reasons for the shift away from slavery were economic. Wage labor was often cheaper and more efficient than slave labor, especially in the context of industrial production.
Runaway enslaved persons were generally not protected by the law and could be punished or returned to their owners if caught. However, the use of enslaved labor in factories was not as widespread as it was in other industries, such as agriculture, and the issue of runaway enslaved persons was not as relevant to the industrial context.