Author Question: Historians typically disagree with which of the following contentions from Time on the Cross? (a) ... (Read 19 times)

CQXA · **on:** Jun 30, 2018

Historians typically disagree with which of the following contentions from Time on the Cross?

(a) Slavery was profitable for Southerners and consequently resulted in wealth accumulation.
(b) Slavery was on the verge of extinction on the eve of the Civil War.
(c) Slave owners were moral and treated slaves with kindness and high standards.
(d) Slave breeding and sexual exploitation were myths and slave sales rarely broke up slave families.

Question 2

The careful historian, in studying an institution like slavery and in striving for objectivity, will give special attention to all of the following except

(a) Those processes which recur over time and which continually motivated the institution
(b) A theory which provides understanding of the cause-and-effect relationships involved
(c) The background conditions of the period
(d) All of the above statements must be given special attention