C)<span>Cities were the cheapest places to live and offered unskilled laborers steady jobs.
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Answer:
Moscow
The vast majority of Russia's population live in the western core area of the country, the region around the capital city of Moscow. Most of the cities on the Barents Sea and in the Eastern Frontier were established for manufacturing or for the exploitation of raw materials.
Explanation:
He was inspired to paint the slave ship after the publishing of the book named the history of abolishment of slave trade. It was a book by Thomas Clarkson.