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In the 1900’s, labor was the most costly factor of production of the cash crops of the plantation economy. The people in control of the slavery developed enough advantage and increased their activity in slavery. Because of this action, this became a cheap form of getting labor as opposed to hiring expensive and trained labor. In the article, George Fitzhugh claimed slavery was better and more humane than the free labor system of the North. Slave labor violates the fact that everyone has the right to control your own body. Also, Fitzhugh mentions that, “Because he works longer and harder for less allowance than the slave, and has no holiday, because the cares of life with him begin when its labors end.”. Slavery takes over a person's life by others who have not obtained any authority to do so. African Americans were not created to be handled and abused by the