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Why Were Harsher Methods of Discipline Introduced After 1840 on Plantations

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Why were harsher methods of discipline introduced after 1840 on plantations in South Carolina and Mississippi?


A) Slaves in those areas frequently organized riots and other more minor rebellions.
B) Slaveholders in those areas were inexperienced and overcompensating.
C) Slaves proved impervious to more mild punishments.
D) Slaveholders feared blacks because they outnumbered whites.

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