The increasing crop caused a new demand for slaves, and an interstate slave-traffic arose between the Border and the Gulf States, which turned the former into slave-breeding districts, and bound them to the slave States by ties of strong economic interest.
Du Bois highlights the emergence of an interstate slave trade driven by economic interests in the South.
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