What Made the Pine Barren People So Controversial in the Old

What made the pine barren people so controversial in the Old South?

A) They formed communities of antislavery activists, hiring only white laborers.
B) As squatters who lived in ramshackle houses, they were cited by northerners as proof that slavery degraded poor whites.
C) They refused to work to support themselves, and instead hunted, gathered and sometimes stole from elite plantations.
D) Their poverty was an embarrassment to the southern planter elite.
E) All of these choices