Which country are we talking about ?do you mean in general ?
Without big farms to run, the people in the North did not rely on slave labor very much. In the South, the economy was based on agriculture. ... The North wanted the new states to be “free states.” Most northerners thought that slavery was wrong and many northern states had outlawed slavery.
One way in which the Kingdom of Ghana facilitated the gold trade was by trading gold with slaves and other workers. Most of the trading was done with other African nations but some with Europeans.
He’s from Hyde park, NY. So The US