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What might have resulted from the fact that many slaveowners believe it was more for economic to buy a new slave than to raise a child to working age

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providing food and shelter until the child was of working age cost more than a new enslaved person

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Providing food and shelter until the child was of working age cost more than a new enslaved person. Southern slavery helped finance industrialization and internal improvements in the North.

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