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The profitability of cotton production hampered southern industrial development since profits were invested in land and slaves, not in manufacturing.
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Cotton profits were largely plowed back into more land and enslaved labor, reinforcing the plantation system and discouraging investment in industry, infrastructure, and diversified manufacturing in the antebellum South.
Cotton profits were largely plowed back into more land and enslaved labor, reinforcing the plantation system and discouraging investment in industry, infrastructure, and diversified manufacturing in the antebellum South.
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