Question

When tobacco prices sagged after 1820, farmers in Virginia and Maryland switched over to cotton and rice production. farmers in Virginia and Maryland found effective ways to reverse soil depletion. large numbers of surplus slaves were sold from the upper South to the lower South. planters in Virginia and Maryland turned openly to slave breeding as a business. Virginia and Maryland began exporting slaves to the Caribbean Is:

Answer 1

Answer: large numbers of surplus slaves were sold from the upper South to the lower South.

Explanation:

As tobacco prices weakened, tobacco farmers in Virginia and Maryland developed a surplus of enslaved workers, and many of them chose to sell those slaves in the domestic slave trade that sent them to work in the Deep South.

In her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), Harriet Beecher Stowe explains that the phrase “to be sold down the river” meant the forced migration slaves were forced to from the upper southern states to the Deep South, south from the Mississippi, to plant cotton.