Research indicates that in the forty-five years before the Civil War, slavery
a. caused boom-and-bust economic cycles to occur more frequently in the South than they occurred in theNorth
b. made it impossible for southern planters to participate in the emerging market economy.
c. was a profitable labor system.
d. caused a greater maldistribution of wealth in southern society than that found in northern society.
c
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