Why were Southern farmers reluctant to free their slaves? A) Cotton farming was not as lucrative without slaves. B) The slaves could not survive without their masters. C) The slaves knew how to use a cotton gin. D) The slaves could take over the plantations.

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even though you have attached neither the chart nor the generalizations, i have located them online. the right answer is d, since they are asking you about a generalization. you can only infer from the chart that between 2008 and 2009 the number of employed workers decreased significantly (from over 115 millions to 107 millions approximately), which signals some type of economic crisis.