From 1840 to 1860, the Price of a "Prime Field

question 70

Multiple Choice

From 1840 to 1860, the price of a "prime field hand":

• A) rose about 80 percent, which made it harder for southern whites to enter the slaveholding class.
• B) rose less than 10 percent, which kept the size of the planter class about the same.
• C) declined about 15 percent as the supply of slaves in the internal slave trade increased.
• D) became so inexpensive that the slaveholding class grew to include nearly two-thirds of southern whites.

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