Given that Congress banned the international slave trade in 1808, the post-1810 growth depicted is best explained by which factor?
- A
Continued legal importation through Spanish Florida
- Bcheck_circle
Natural population increase among the enslaved within the United States
- C
Reclassification of indentured servants as enslaved persons
- D
Massive immigration from Africa to fill plantation labor needs
Explanation
The U.S. enslaved population grew almost entirely through natural reproduction after 1808, an unusual demographic pattern compared with most slave societies in the Americas.