The Profitable Southern Slave System

question 22

Multiple Choice

The profitable southern slave system

• A) hobbled the economic development of the region as a whole.
• B) saw many slaves moving to the upper South.
• C) led to the textile industry's development in the South first.
• D) relied almost totally on importing slaves to meet the unquenchable demand for labor.
• E) failed to prompt most planters to regard their slaves as investments to be cared for and monitored like any other asset.

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