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African slaves resisted enslavement and the Southern plantation economy in a variety of ways, ranging from violent rebellion to sabotage, infanticide, suicide, running away, and the deliberate destruction of plantation property.
Even with this new lease on life for slavery, a lot of the plantation owners were falling into debt by 1860, and the system was again becoming economically shaky. Slaves did provide free labor, but only in a sense; the owners did have to feed, clothe and shelter them, and that cost money.