Question

As a substitute for the wage-incentive system, slaveowners most often used the ____

a. promise of eventual freedom.
b. reward of some legal rights.
c. the promise to slaves of a grant of private property to do tenant farming after a period of years of bondage.
d. whip as a motivator. threat of death.

Answer 1

The substitute for the wage-incentive system that slaveowners most often used was:
d. whip as a motivator, threat of death.