Why could someone argue that the North was complicit in the expansion of slavery? Most in the North wanted to reopen the importation of slaves. Some slaves ran away to northern states. Some slaveholders were originally from the North. O Northern factory demand for cotton steadily increased. Many northern states had slaves at one time.

Why could someone argue that the North was complicit in the expansion of slavery? Most in the North wanted to reopen the importation of slaves. Some slaves ran away to northern states. Some slaveholders were originally from the North. O Northern factory demand for cotton steadily increased. Many northern states had slaves at one time.