Slavery warped southern whites by
A) encouraging poor whites to work for someone else to earn a stake to buy some land.
B) allowing them too much leisure time.
C) causing basically decent people to commit countless petty cruelties.
D) encouraging southern slave owners to develop strong emotional bonds with people that they treated as mere possessions.

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Slavery in the South led to a culture where otherwise decent individuals often engaged in or became desensitized to acts of cruelty towards enslaved people, as part of maintaining the system of slavery. This environment normalized such behaviors, reflecting how the institution of slavery could morally corrupt those involved.

Slavery Warped Southern Whites by