How did the South's elite class protect slavery?

Question: How did the South's elite class protect slavery!?

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The elite class would never work in the fields !.!.!.!. they (the elite) would just find another source of cheap labor (the south was generally poor anyway)!. Slavery was becoming uneconomical and on its way out!. Then Eli Whitney invented the Cotton Gin and slavery got a rejuvination!. But also the elitest would simply put so many leins essentially on the slaves that it was a negative cycle!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

That's how they remaine the "elite class!." Imagine if they actually had to pay laborers to work their plantations!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

With money!.
Cotton, from the South, was extremely popular!. Britain paid for most of the South's weapons through the purchase of the cotton!.
Until the North blockaded the ports!.
Then Britain had to get its cotton elsewhere!.
Basically, it was guns and money that kept the ideals of slavery in place!.Www@QuestionHome@Com