Why Did Southern Slaves Live in Better Conditions by the Mid-Nineteenth

question 23

Multiple Choice

Why did southern slaves live in better conditions by the mid-nineteenth century than those in the Caribbean and South America?

• A) They did not; slaves led vastly healthier lives in regions other than the American South.
• B) Southern Protestant churches encouraged better treatment of southern slaves than the Roman Catholic Church did with slaves in the Caribbean and South America.
• C) The rising value of slaves made it profitable for slaveowners to take better care of them.
• D) Laws in the South were far more protective of slaves than were laws concerning slaves elsewhere.
• E) Southern slaves had a greater likelihood of becoming free than did other New World slaves.

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