What Made the Pine Barren People So Controversial in the Old

question 10

Multiple Choice

What made the pine barren people so controversial in the Old South?

• A) They formed communities of antislavery activists, hiring only white laborers.
• B) As squatters who lived in ramshackle houses, they were cited by northerners as proof that slavery degraded poor whites.
• C) They refused to work to support themselves, and instead hunted, gathered and sometimes stole from elite plantations.
• D) Their poverty was an embarrassment to the southern planter elite.
• E) All of these choices

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