The idea behind the statement was that people in the south didn't like slavery much but they thought that it had to be done. For many of them it was true because they had large areas of land that were covered in crops, and the economy was thriving because the people who worked on that land were slaves. If it hadn't been for free work force, the economy would've failed for them and they'd lose everything. They believed that slavery therefore had to exist because someone has to keep the world spinning according to what they believed was right.
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Historians would be most likely to study them to determine what they once held. Archaeologists would be the ones to find the clay jars and dig them up.
"<span>d. The expedition did not conduct trade along the way" would be an accurate statement regarding Magellan's expedition, since this expedition was purely exploratory in nature. </span>