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Why did southern whites discourage freeing slaves after the Revolution?

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they would not earn money without slavery so they didnt want to let slaves go

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They would not earn any profits from their cotton farms without slaves, they had huge fields and they could not do it themselves so they refused freeing their slaves even after the Revolution.

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