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The idea behind the statement was that people in the south didn't like slavery much but they thought that it had to be done. For many of them it was true because they had large areas of land that were covered in crops, and the economy was thriving because the people who worked on that land were slaves. If it hadn't been for free work force, the economy would've failed for them and they'd lose everything. They believed that slavery therefore had to exist because someone has to keep the world spinning according to what they believed was right.
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The person who has the record for the longest filibuster, 24 hours and 18 minutes in 1957, would be "<span>C. Strom Thurmond," since he refused to even take a bathroom break. </span>
The difficulties they struggled with was the Bubonic plague also known as the Black Death caused by bacterium yersinia pestis and civil war.