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Answer is b. the ownership of slaves.
Owning slaves on large scale is a privilege the rich and powerful people enjoys, giving them large benefits of enjoying their slaves’ rewards of labor. Slave owning indicates not just the wealth one has, even the political influence and social prestige.<span>
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The abolitionist movement was very powerful in the North, since the North did not rely heavily on a slave population and because slavery had long-since been depleted in the region.
This is Hemingway's belief that issues should be dealt with stoically and heroically. This can be seen in The Old Man and the Sea in the way the man never gives up and fights the Fish with all that he's got.
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