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Why could plantation owners oppose the abolition of slavery?

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Correct answer: Because their profit depended on slave labour

Plantation owners produced valuable crops by controlling a large labour force. Enslaved people were compelled to work, received no freedom to leave, and were denied normal rights and fair control over their work. If slavery were abolished, plantation owners would have to lose this forced labour system and find another way to organise production. Their costs and control could therefore change, so abolition threatened their economic interests.

Option A is correct because plantation profits depended heavily on slave labour. Options B, C, and D do not provide a logical reason: representation was not the owners’ purpose, freeing all enslaved people had not already happened, and plantations did generate income. The question connects opposition to abolition with material benefit and exploitation, rather than with democratic ideals.

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French RevolutionPlantation OwnersEconomic Interest

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