Fear of the Slave Power was fear that the ____________.

A) use of slave labor would allow Southern producers to undersell Northern producers
B) distribution of abolitionist literature among slaves was likely to inspire a violent slave revolt
C) slaveholding elite that controlled the South was determined to control the entire nation
D) slave population was growing so rapidly that slaves would soon far outnumber whites in many Southern states

Slave Power

A term used before the Civil War describing the perceived political and economic control that slaveholding states had over the U.S. federal government.

Slave Labor

The forced labor of enslaved individuals, often without pay, used historically in various cultures and economic systems, notably in the pre-Civil War American South.

Slave Revolt

An uprising by enslaved individuals seeking to obtain freedom, typically occurring in historical contexts where slavery was institutionalized.