The correct answer should be
<span>mostly in the South
The far west did not yet exist at the time because parts of it were not yet colonized. North was against it but not as much as during the civil war era. Southerners had plantations of things like cotton or of crops that needed workers so they used slaves.</span>
May I ask, what text? Why are so many people posting this type of question without adding the passage?!?
Because it is more than 5,000 years old.