Why did southerners oppose industry in the south?

The Southerners opposed industry because their main revenue came from exported crash crops grown in plantations. The Southerners saw no need to incorporate industry since they thought it would not be useful at all.

The southerners grew and sold crops so the industry wouldn’t help the farmers with their cash crop.

it was made because he wanted to try to make people convert as well people who would have read or studied this item at the time it was created were probably people who wanted to change religions who thought conversion was a good idea.