Despite the end of slavery, most black agricultural labor in the South in the late nineteenth century continued to emulate the gang-labor system in which slaves lived in concentrated quarters and worked in groups under the constant supervision of a white field boss suggestive of the prewar overseer
a. true
b. false
b. false
You might also like to view...
Discuss the major issues as well as the more important leaders of reform at the state level during the progressive era
What will be an ideal response?
Why did southern slaves live in better conditions by the mid-nineteenth century than those in the Caribbean and South America?
a. Southern slaves had a greater likelihood of becoming free than did other New World slaves. b. They did not; slaves led vastly healthier lives in regions other than the American South. c. The rising value of slaves made it profitable for slaveowners to take better care of them. d. Laws in the South were far more protective of slaves than were laws concerning slaves elsewhere. e. Southern Protestant churches encouraged better treatment of southern slaves than the Roman Catholic Church did with slaves in the Caribbean and South America.
The emergence of the global assembly line led to which of the following?
A) higher workplace safety standards B) rising real wages C) declining labor and environmental standards D) increasing union membership
The so-called Loco Focos of the 1830s were
A. defenders of monopolies. B. radical abolitionists. C. southern slaveholders. D. western farmers. E. radical Democrats.