After 1830,southerners Increasingly Argued That

question 81

Multiple Choice

After 1830,southerners increasingly argued that

• A) slavery was a positive good endorsed by the Bible and Aristotle.
• B) slavery was morally problematic but economically necessary.
• C) slavery could not be ended because emancipation would deepen racial conflict.
• D) poorer whites as well as blacks could be enslaved.
• E) leading European intellectuals accepted slavery on racial grounds.

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