Economics professor Thomas Roderick Dew
a. defended slavery on moral and economic grounds.
b. admitted that slavery was profitable, but maintained that higher ethical and moral questions should take precedence over making money.
c. published a systematic defense of slavery claiming that it produced a superior system of organizing and controlling labor.
d. attacked the notion that slavery was profitable due to the high cost of maintaining slaves all of their lives.
e. attacked slavery on the grounds that it produced an inefficient system of labor.
ANS: C
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