With regard to sexual relations between white men and enslaved women in the antebellum South, white southern women
A. increasingly spoke out against such liaisons in the 1830s and 1840s
B. were supposed to pretend that they did not notice
C. actively sought passage of laws against interracial sexual relations
D. usually placed the blame for such relationships on the enslaved women
Answer: B
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