As a result of white southerners' brutal treatment of their slaves and their fear of potential slave rebellions, the South
a. formed alliances with white imperialists in Africa.
b. adopted British attitudes toward the "peculiar institution."
c. emancipated many slaves.
d. returned to relying on wage labor and indentured servitude for its main agricultural labor force.
e. developed a theory of biological racial superiority to justify slavery.
e
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