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 birthrates
D. the abolition of slave markets in the United States
Answer: A
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