When tobacco prices sagged after 1820,________.
A) farmers in the upper South switched over to cotton and rice production
B) farmers in the upper South found effective ways to reverse soil depletion
C) an internal slave trade emerged from the upper to the lower South
D) planters in Virginia and Maryland turned openly to slave breeding as a business
E) Virginia and Maryland began exporting slaves to the Caribbean Islands

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When tobacco prices fell, farmers in the upper South, where tobacco was a primary crop, began selling their slaves to the lower South where cotton cultivation was expanding, leading to the emergence of an internal slave trade.

When Tobacco Prices Sagged After 1820,________