What Was the Most Common Means of Acquiring Slaves to Work

question 5

Multiple Choice

What was the most common means of acquiring slaves to work on newly established cotton plantations in the Lower South?

• A) illegally importing them from the West Indies
• B) through births to existing slaves
• C) capturing and returning to slavery communities of escaped slaves in Florida
• D) purchasing them from Spanish landowners in the territory that would become Texas
• E) purchasing them at auction in cities such as Mobile, Natchez, and New Orleans

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