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Before and during the Civil War, which group performed most of the labor required to cultivate cotton? (1 point)

enslaved Black people

Mexican immigrants

sharecroppers

O poor White people

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enslaved Black people

They did most of the field labor on Southern plantations before and during the Civil War, especially after the cotton boom and invention of the cotton gin increased demand for slave labor.