In the South during the Industrial Revolution, all Southern farmers had enslaved workers.
most plantations had fifty or more enslaved workers.
about twenty-five percent of Southern households had no enslaved workers.
about twenty-five percent of Southern households had enslaved workers.

answer by mimiwhatsup: c. british impressment involved attacking and boarding neutral merchant ships and forcing the captured crew to serve in the royal navy.

source: "british impressment, or practice of taking or seizing american sailors from american trading ships and forcing them into the british navy." ()