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I think a big issue in the whole issue of the expansion of slavery was that the slaves were reproducing so rapidly that some states main export was slaves. Forward thinking white southerners realized they would soon be drastically outnumbered by Negro and Mulatto slaves. Haiti's successful slave rebellion with its attendant horrors weighed heavily on their minds. If the slave states could be cordoned off and not allowed to expand the southerners realized they were the next Haiti and could not only expect no help from the national government but might instead likely get steady agitation of their slave population from the northern abolitionists. The import of Negro African slaves is the worst thing ever done to the U.S. but by 1776 the situation was well entrenched.