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Some slaveholders in the Upper South began favoring gradual abolition after a downturn in the _____ economy made slave labor less valuable.

a. cotton

b. wheat

c. rice

d. tobacco

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d. tobacco

Some slaveholders in the Upper South began favoring gradual abolition after a downturn in the tobacco economy made slave labor less valuable.
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