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ENagel

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Conrad and Meyer (1958) found evidence to support the claim that the annual rates of return to slave agriculture were
 
  (a) high enough to attract investment funds away from other alternatives in the cotton South.
  (b) high enough to benefit the entire Southern economy through the profits generated and the backward and forward links to other businesses.
  (c) relatively low in the new frontier, thus encouraging the new cotton producing areas of the South to move away from the slave system.
  (d) low enough that the people in the North could purchase the slaves and free them at minimal cost.

Question 2

Time on the Cross views slavery as a system in which
 
  (a) the slaves were quite happy, good-hearted and content with their condition.
  (b) the plantations were efficient operations with incentive systems providing slaves with some rewards for productive behaviors.
  (c) the slaves, because of the oppression and brutal conditions they faced, had the same type of attitudes as did the inmates of Nazi concentration camps during World War II.
  (d) the prospects of escape or resistance were so poor that slaves made few revolts against slavery.


lucas dlamini

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Reply #1 on: Jun 30, 2018
Answer to Question 1

(a)

Answer to Question 2

(b)


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