Urban Slaves

question 125

Multiple Choice

Urban slaves

• A) most often were servants, cooks, and other domestic servants.
• B) was a term coined by southerners to describe northern factory workers.
• C) had less autonomy than plantation slaves because there were more authorities to watch them.
• D) could work on their own and always kept the majority of their earnings.
• E) increasingly replaced skilled white laborers as the Civil War approached.

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