Hello. You forgot to introduce the answer options. The options are:
A. Slaves were needed to defend plantations against invaders.
B. Slavery boosted the reputations of Southern landowners.
C. Slaves could be traded with other nations for money.
D. Slavery helped slave families stay together on plantations.
E. Slaves were required to grow crops on plantations.
Answer:
E. Slaves were required to grow crops on plantations.
Explanation:
Pro-slavery Americans claimed that slaves were essential to the supply of agricultural products in the country. This is because it was the slaves who did the whole process of sowing, maintaining, harvesting, processing and distributing agricultural products from southern crops. These people who defended slavery, claimed that freeing the slaves would dissolve all this labor and block the productivity of the national agricultural sector.
