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As the Civil War broke out, the Southern economy was based on what?

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it was based on the use of slavery as well as cash crop farms (think cotton, indigo, tobacco)
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the South's economy was based on a system of large-scale farming that depended on the labor of Black enslaved people to grow certain crops, especially cotton and tobacco.

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