What was the economy like in the south during the civil war

The economy in the south during the Civil War was an agricultural based economy.  The south heavily  relied on the success of slave-worked plantations that produced cotton that would get exported to Europe and the Northern states. The South was very rich at the time of the Civil War, but the economy would soon decline as the north continued to advance at a faster speed than the south.

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