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Why did an increased demand for cotton lead to a concentration of enslaved African Americans in the Lower South?

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So white men did not have to do any work to get more money and stay in there houses and do nothing while the slaves are working hard on the fields it was also easier to have slaves in the south rather than the north.
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Answer:The slave economy of the South had international economic reach since the ... had become home to the greatest concentration of wealth in the United States. ... were reducing the number of people they enslaved due to high costs and low output. ... Indeed, American cotton soon made up two-thirds of the global supply,

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