Both enslaved and free blacks had more opportunity to do skilled occupations in the South than in the North because:

A) the South failed to attract much immigrant labor.
B) they were seen as an alternative to a technological society.
C) southerners felt blacks were more intelligent than northerners did.
D) southern whites wouldn't do them.


Answer: A

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