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Why did the fear of slave revolts in the South increase in the early 1800s?

The population of the South began to support emancipation.
The government required slave owners to educate their enslaved people..
The slave population outnumbered the white population in the South.
The economy of the South began to crash after the invention of the cotton gin.

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The slave population outnumbered the white population in the South.

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