Slaves Regarded the Least Prosperous, Non-Slaveholding Whites as

question 15

Multiple Choice

Slaves regarded the least prosperous, non-slaveholding whites as

• A) potential, yet undesirable, masters.
• B) their equals in doing the least desirable work.
• C) violent, rabble-rousers who often picked on slaves.
• D) hillbillies and "poor white trash"-too lazy and shiftless to work productively.
• E) potential allies in slave revolts against planter aristocrats.

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