Many thought that, by ending the United States's participation in the international slave trade, slavery would gradually diminish.Why did slavery nonetheless continue to flourish in the South?As slavery diminished in the North, slaveowners flooded the South with slaves they hoped to sell while they still could.Members of the Cherokee Nation who were exempt from U.S. law continued to import and sell slaves on their land.Slaves in the U.S. had comparatively high birth rates and low mortality rates, leading to natural increase.Southern states nullified the federal laws against the international slave trade and continued to import slaves.

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