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Why Did Many Northern Wage Earners Not Support Abolition in the Mid-Eighteenth

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Why did many northern wage earners not support abolition in the mid-eighteenth century?


A) Wageworkers feared that freed blacks would work for lower wages and compete for jobs.
B) The northerners supported slavery only because of the belief of black inferiority.
C) They were interested in maintaining the English Protestant society of the North.
D) They did not want the Baptists beliefs held by many slaves to spread to the North.

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