What connection does the author draw between slavery and the Lowell System textile mills? [RI.3]
A. Enslaving people provided Lowell System mills with expensive, difficult to find labor, thereby decreasing the profits
for the owners.
B. Lowell System mills inspired the community with their ideals of freedom and education, thereby turning many of
the workers into abolitionists.
C. The use of slave labor on cotton plantations allowed Lowell System mills to make large profits, and the mills' need
for more cotton increased the
demand for slaves.
D.
The workers in Lowell System mills supported slavery because they were unwilling to see their wages go down if
enslaved workers were
freed and started receiving a salary.