Which statement does NOT reflect the national debate over slavery in the mid-1800s? A. Southerners mostly said nothing to combat the public relations attacks by Northern abolitionists. B. Northern black and white abolitionists developed the Underground Railroad to combat slavery. C. Southern slaveholders collectively responded to critics of slavery by arguing that slavery was more humane than the conditions of free industrial labor in the North. D. Northern free blacks worked with abolitionists to produce slave narratives which told of the gruesome treatment of slaves.

Which statement does NOT reflect the national debate over slavery in the mid-1800s? A. Southerners mostly said nothing to combat the public relations attacks by Northern abolitionists. B. Northern black and white abolitionists developed the Underground Railroad to combat slavery. C. Southern slaveholders collectively responded to critics of slavery by arguing that slavery was more humane than the conditions of free industrial labor in the North. D. Northern free blacks worked with abolitionists to produce slave narratives which told of the gruesome treatment of slaves.