Why Did Poor White Southerners Support a Slave Society in Which

question 38

Multiple Choice

Why did poor white Southerners support a slave society in which they had so little power?

• A) They had little power but many privileges in a society that was egalitarian despite great divisions in wealth.
• B) They viewed enslaved African Americans as having better lives than they did themselves.
• C) They believed in the inferiority of African Americans.
• D) They benefited from slave labor even on their own small farms.

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