By the 1700s, slavery in the american colonies was?
a. concentrated mostly in the new england colonies.
b. concentrated mostly in the middle colonies.
c. concentrated mostly in the southern colonies.
d. evenly distributed throughout all the colonies.

The correct option is C

Slavery was practiced in British America from the beginning of the colonial era, and was firmly established when the Declaration of Independence of the United States was signed. After this, there was a gradual expansion of abolitionism in the North, while the rapid expansion of the cotton industry since 1800 caused the South to cling tightly to slavery, and try to expand it into the new western territories of the country. Thus, slavery polarized the nation into slave states and free states through the Mason-Dixon line, which separated Maryland and Delaware (slavers) and Pennsylvania (free).

C. concentrated mostly in the southern colonies.

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