What was the southern point of view about the expansion of slavery

The southern argument for slavery ... Defenders of slavery argued that the sudden end of the slave economy would have hade a profound and killing economic impact in the south where reliance on slave labor was the foundation of their economy.the cotton economy would collapse

Cherokee  removal, part of the trail of tears, refers to the  forced  relocation between 1836 and 1839 of thecherokee  nation from  their lands ingeorgia, south carolina, north carolina, tennessee, texas, and alabama to the indian territory (present day oklahoma)  in  the thenwestern united states, and the resultant deaths