Yes. Parts of the Confederacy did.
They seceded, 11 of 13 to be exact. They said they were no longer part of "The United States" and they continued with their way of life which included the keeping of slaves and slave labor.
They didn't think it was wrong when they were part of it and sure as heck didn't think it wrong when they had seceded.
At least until Lincoln came out with his Emancipation Proclamation. And even then some slave owners- most plantations were destroyed by the Civil War- did not follow it. A few did though
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A few things connect Ibn Battuta, Marco Polo, and Zheng He, even though their lives did not overlap. They each served kings and emperors. They each traveled enormous distances to places most people from their homelands had never seen.
The answer would be they all must answer the questions of what to produce and how to produce it based on the resources they have
