A major reason for the reduction in the number of slave owners in the South prior to the Civil War was:
A) the rapidly increasing price of slaves.
B) an increasing mortality rate.
C) a rapid decline in slave birth rates.
D) the abolition of slave markets in the United States.
Answer: A
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