- The sudden loss of a cheap and abundant labor source caused economic disruption in plantation - based economies
Labor shortages :
- Plantations heavily relies on slave labor , and finding a suitable and efficient replacements proved challenging and costly
**Social unrest
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- Enslaved peoples, encouraged by the prospect of freedom ,began demanding better conditions or
resorting to resistance and revolts, exacerbating social tensions,
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Political instability.
-> Enslaved people gained legal rights and citizenship following emancipation, shifting the plantation owner's political dominance.
Changing attitudes about slaver;' The abolitionist movements's sucess changed public perception of slaver.
International pressure
- Other nations with a more enlightened views on slaver exerted pressures and influence to end this practice making it politically unsustainable.