In the Republican free labor vision of a reconstructed South,

A) the southern economy would revive without the need for northern capital or migrants.
B) plantation owners would re-create a labor system as close to slavery as possible.
C) black and white farmers would be tied to plantations through a continuous cycle of debt.
D) Southern black and northern white workers would enjoy the same opportunities, and the South would become more like the North.
E) the Deep South states would grow wheat and raise cattle instead of cotton.

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Cedric Davis · Accepted Answer

Final Answer : D, Explanation :  The Republican free labor vision for the reconstructed South included the idea that Southern black and northern white workers would have equal opportunities, aiming to transform the South to be more economically and socially similar to the North. This vision was part of the broader effort to rebuild and reform the South's economy and society after the Civil War, moving away from the plantation economy and towards a more diversified and free labor system.

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