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Plantation in Wallace, Louisiana,
an example of the antebellum Southern ideal
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Question 964:
Why did
non-slaveholding southerners support the slave system?
(A) some hoped to be slaveholders
(B) they readily accepted the
racist assumptions of slavery
(C) they feared what freed slaves
might do
(D) as long as slaves were in the
social order, poor whites were not at the bottom of the social pyramid
(E) all of the above
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