The Following Questions Refer to the Excerpt Below

The following questions refer to the excerpt below.
"No Negro shall leave the place at any time without my permission…No Negro shall be allowed to marry out of the plantation…No rule I have stated is of more importance than that relating to negroes marrying out of the plantation…It creates a feeling of independence,from being,of right,out of the control of the masters for a time.Never allow any man to talk to your Negroes,nothing more injurious."
Rules of Highland Plantation,1838
-In the decades before the Civil War,slave owners

A) empowered by the slave revolts became less harsh toward their slaves.
B) provided separate villages for the slaves to come together for worship and marriage.
C) created a set of proslavery arguments justifying slavery as a positive good.
D) formed a union to prevent the abolitionists from gaining power.