All of the Following Were True of Slavery in the South

All of the following were true of slavery in the South except that

A) slave life on the frontier was harder than that of life in the more settled areas.
B) a distinctive African American slave culture developed.
C) a typical planter had too much of his own prosperity riding on the backs of his slaves to beat them on a regular basis.
D) by 1860, most slaves were concentrated in the "black belt" of the Deep South.
E) most slaves were raised in single unstable parent households.