question - how DID slavery as an ECONOMIC system affect the economy and the social and class systems in the North, the south, and the west?
ANSWER : Slavery as an economic affected the social class systems by enabling large plantation workers to have workers to make them become really wealthy. This. therefor, created the sort-of aristocratic upper-class status. Those who ha less slaves produced less, had a lower status, and din't make as much money as the ones who had more slaves. And those who lacked slaves completely were in the lowest class class of free whites, because of whites they were the most powerful. Below them were the free whites, who, because of racism instilled in slavery, were cast out of society even if they were rather successful.