Industrialization was already starting in the South. Large
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plantations were not going to need huge numbers of workers anymore. The cost of owning and keeping slaves would soon be far in excess of their worth.
Yes it would have taken some time to completely die out but the economic and social costs of slavery made it a dying institution.