As the urban population of the South grew between the 1840s and 1850s, how did middle-class Southerners respond to slavery?

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Most middle-class Southerners believed that the slave system was essential for maintaining social peace and for the economic development of the South. This belief was rooted in the economic benefits that slavery brought to the Southern economy, particularly in agriculture, and the social order it established.

As the Urban Population of the South Grew Between the 1840s