The passage on the Skipwiths and John Hartwell Cocke reflects __________

a) the variety and complexity of master-slave relations
b) the brutality of slaveholders in the antebellum South
c) the decline of slavery in the American South in the 1850s
d) the willingness of northern abolitionists to move violently to end slavery


Answer: a

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