"Bro this is literally slavery ๐ญ" - Slaveowning Founding Fathers
Early Modern Period (~1600 AD)
(media.piefed.social)
The thing is, the reason why slavery died in the North and not the South was not exclusively moral, but largely economic - slavery had ceased to be economically viable in the production of most agricultural work. The cotton gin made cotton, a very labor-intensive crop, immensely more profitable, and you see a sharp reversal in the lukewarm growth of abolitionism in the early US South compared with the post-1800 US South, to the point where, by the 1830s, slavery was more entrenched in the South, both economically and philosophically, than it was 40 years before.