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who supplied most of the labor on cotton plantations?
subsistence farmers from neighboring farms
enslaved people
immigrants from latin america
immigrants from europe
In the context of cotton plantations in the United States (especially during the antebellum period), the primary labor force was enslaved people. Subsis tence farmers focused on their own farms, and immigration from Latin America or Europe was not the main source of labor for cotton plantations at that time. Enslaved people were forced to work on these plantations, providing the majority of the labor.
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B. enslaved people