Why Did Many Northern Wage Earners Not Support Abolition in the Mid-Eighteenth

question 80

Multiple Choice

Why did many northern wage earners not support abolition in the mid-eighteenth century?

• A) Wageworkers feared that freed blacks would work for lower wages and compete for jobs.
• B) The northerners supported slavery only because of the belief of black inferiority.
• C) They were interested in maintaining the English Protestant society of the North.
• D) They did not want the Baptists beliefs held by many slaves to spread to the North.

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