What was the primary purpose of slaveholders providing only minimal food, clothing, and shelter to enslaved people?

To encourage them to learn how to produce these goods for themselves

To make them dependent on the slaveholder for survival

To follow laws that placed strict limits on plantation expenses

To punish them for not working hard enough in the fields

Besides physical violence, what was another key method used to maintain control over enslaved people?

Instilling a constant sense of fear

Offering promotions to become overseers

Promising them a share of the crop profits

Allowing them to visit family on other plantations

To ensure the health and well-being of the workforce

To force enslaved people to work and prevent rebellion

To teach valuable life skills for a future after slavery

To create a model community for other plantations to follow

Offering paths to freedom through hard work

A combination of creating dependency and using fear

Relying exclusively on the authority of white preachers

Providing education and training for new jobs

To train enslaved people for skilled jobs

To use extreme violence and cruelty to crush a person's spirit

To capture people who had escaped from the plantation

To manage the buying and selling of enslaved individuals