Which of the Following Statements About the Domestic Slave Trade

question 37

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about the domestic slave trade and slave families is MOST accurate?

• A)The general reluctance of slaveholders to divide slave families indicates that slavery in the U.S.was a "precapitalist" system.
• B)One of the main factors helping to preserve slave families was the economic fact that slave traders could make more money by selling families as a unit than they could by selling each slave individually.
• C)As avowed capitalists,slaveholders regularly boasted of the profits to be made by breaking apart families and selling slaves individually as the need arose.
• D)The economic needs of slaveholders typically outweighed their paternalistic reluctance to break apart families.

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