• The majority of planters had few enslaved people and preferred to use paid labor when possible.
• The wealth and power of planters was dependent on the labor of enslaved people.
• Planters managed enslaved people but had little direct involvement in the buying and selling of
enslaved people.
• Planters supported slavery in South Carolina but opposed its expansion elsewhere.
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The most accurate analysis of the relationship between planters and slavery is:
• The wealth and power of planters was dependent on the labor of enslaved people.
This statement reflects the fundamental economic relationship in the antebellum South, where agricultural production, particularly in cash crops like cotton and sugar, was heavily reliant on the labor of enslaved individuals.
