Slavery Entrenched

Slavery became entrenched both economically and politically. Slavery gave a big boost to the American economy. Also slavery made congress put in new laws for the slaves and slave owners. 

Slavery gave the American economy a big boost. Most of the slaves worked I the south on plantations. The slaves would work long, hot, draining days for no pay. In 1860 the south grew 2.28 billion pounds of cotton. Cotton exports produced $191.8 million. Was 57% of the nations revenue. The produces a lot of money for America an boosts the economy substantially. Usually slaves in the north worked in textiles and needed cotton from the south.  Also many laws were implemented. For example Article 4, Section 2, Clause 3 in the constitution basically  states that if a slave escapes and is found by someone the slave must be returned to the original owner. There were many more laws made because of slavery. That just shows how important slavery was to the U.S. and that is why it was entrenched.