What Fact of Life Was the Greatest Source of Sorrow

question 77

Multiple Choice

What fact of life was the greatest source of sorrow for plantation wives?

• A) farm life was difficult and harsh
• B) the loss of their children to malaria and other diseases that plagued the plantation South
• C) their husbands' sexual relationships with slave women
• D) that many were opposed to slavery but were powerless to stop it
• E) All of these choices

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