Question

Which idea does this secondary source support?

Enslaved persons were too valuable for Southern
leaders to consider emancipation.
Many owners of large plantations could not afford
enslaved workers.
O Plantation owners paid millions of dollars for
enslaved workers.
Almost all Southerners could afford to have
enslaved workers in the antebellum era.
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Answer 1

It’s the first one enslaved ppl were very valuable and precious to southern slave owners

Answer 2

a, enslaved persons were too valuable for southern leaders to consider emancipation