Which Statement Characterizes the Typical Relationship Between Slaves and Their

question 14

Multiple Choice

Which statement characterizes the typical relationship between slaves and their masters in the 1850s?

• A) Slaves were investments and therefore were generally provided with clothes,shelter,and enough food to keep them healthy.
• B) White women felt so guilty about their husbands' transgressions with female slaves that they treated those slave women with extra kindness.
• C) Accounts of sexual contact between masters and their slaves were greatly exaggerated and rarely occurred.
• D) Tobacco planters in Virginia usually treated their slaves more harshly than Mississippi cotton planters.

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