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What were the major economic and social distinctions among the different regions of the Old South? |
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Describe the class system among southern whites. How many whites actually owned slaves? Did the whites who did not own slaves support the institution of slavery? If so, why? |
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How did slavery actually work as a labor system? Did all slaves work in the same way? Was slavery a profitable system of labor for the masters? |
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What were some of the different ways that slaves resisted their bonded status? |
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What were the different arguments that southerners used to defend slavery? |
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