Slaveowners moved to central Missouri to grow hemp and tobacco. Outside the core area of large plantations, others from the same part of the country settled on small farms with a slave or two to raise corn and livestock.
That model, tobacco and hemp plantations in the lowlands along the river and small farms with a slave or two in the surrounding areas was possible outside the Deep South and was being put into effect in neighboring Kansas.
Once slaveholding had a politically reliable core, slaveowners branched into other areas and activities. I told you that slaves were used in textile and iron production, in mining, in railroad construction. They were also used in shipbuilding, lumbering, potterymaking and other industries.
You just ignore what people post to you and repeat what you've already said and think that you've answered objections when you haven't even addressed them.
Okay, you are reading stuff into what I post that I never said. I never said there would be none, I said there would be no significant amounts of it because the profit wasn't there.
Of course if it was allowed, there would be some but nothing like that used in plantation farming.
Once slaveholding had a politically reliable core, slaveowners branched into other areas and activities. I told you that slaves were used in textile and iron production, in mining, in railroad construction. They were also used in shipbuilding, lumbering, potterymaking and other industries.
To some extent, but not on a large scale. If such a thing had been done on a large scale, it would have simply caused slavery to have even more opposition. The Northern whites were mostly opposed to slavery because they saw it as an unfair competition against their ability to earn wages. So long as they kept it down South on the farms doing jobs they didn't want, they would grumble about it, but if they saw it as taking large numbers of jobs away from them, they would have voiced an opposition verging on riot.
Moving slavery large scale into these other jobs in the territories would have stiffened and increased opposition to it even more than it was.