In the 1850s, the most profitable activity a slave-owning planter in the Upper South might pursue was:
A) growing cotton.
B) selling slaves to the Lower South.
C) investing in Southern industry.
D) freeing his slaves and hiring them back as free labor.
Answer: B
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