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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: abolition of slavery, the blacks would soon be, as it were, lost
in the midst of a strange population.
A district which is cultivated by slaves is in general more
scantily peopled than a district cultivated by free labor:
moreover, America is still a new country, and a State is
therefore not half peopled at the time when it abolishes slavery.
No sooner is an end put to slavery than the want of free labor is
felt, and a crowd of enterprising adventurers immediately arrive
from all parts of the country, who hasten to profit by the fresh
resources which are then opened to industry. The soil is soon
divided amongst them, and a family of white settlers takes
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