<span>Discarding mass amount of human and consumer waste.</span>
I'm pretty sure it's c but don't quote me on it
Although mercantilism in general did good things for trade within European powers, it also led to conflict since it spawned so much competition. For instance many nations did not take well to having tariffs placed on their goods and would therefore go to war.
I believe it means back when slavery was around most of the African Americans were in the South and most of them tried to escape but couldn’t. So therefore it’s sayin that since they left and when the civil war ended and all that and when slavery was abolished the South was their home now, and so that’s why today African Americans live mostly in the South.