Why Did Many Planters Consider Slave Women More Valuable Than

question 60

Multiple Choice

Why did many planters consider slave women more valuable than slave men?

• A) Since slave women prepared the food for the planter's family, their labor was perceived as a necessity.
• B) Since slave women cared for all the white children on the plantation, they were perceived as mother figures.
• C) Since the children of slave women were also slaves, their offspring added to the planter's labor force and capital.
• D) Since cotton was the crop tended by slave women, their labor accounted for most of a plantation's profit.