The best explanation for the greater reliance on slavery in the British colonies in the Lower and Upper South rather than in its northern American colonies is that __________.
A. southerners were lazier than northerners
B. slavery was more profitable in plantation economies
C. most northerners were morally opposed to slavery
D. slave traders refused to sell slaves in the North
Answer: B
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