United States History Question of the Day


A victim of slavery
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Question 1090:

Southern defenses of slavery in the 1850s included all of the following except

    (A)    references to slavery in the Bible, including "slaves, obey your masters"
    (B)    an appeal that slavery was actually kinder to the slave than the wage system of Northern cities
    (C)    the Constitution allowed slavery
    (D)    the continued presence of slavery in Great Britain
    (E)    the fact that Rome and Greece both utilized slavery



Answer and explanation