As indentured servants became fearful, it became more economically viable to purchase slaves. “Free Virginians gradually became familiar with Atlantic resources and the slave trade even as tobacco plantations expanded.” This increase in the number of slaves directly linked to tobacco crops put the South on the path to becoming a nation with a slave system. It is this slave system which is directly linked to capitalism and its flourishing in the South. “But Southern slave society emerged within the liberal capitalist world rather than outside it. » It is this emerging society which is beginning to feed on capitalism. Northern factories needed raw cotton; the South grew cotton for the North and Europe. Then the North sold the miscellaneous items to the South and beyond. It was this fundamental capitalist idea that made the South dependent on slavery. Slavery was the cheapest way to harvest cotton. Thus, as money circulates, the planter earns a lot of money through