What connection does the author draw between slavery and the Lowell System textile mills? [RI.3]

AEnslaving people provided Lowell System mills with expensive, difficult to find labor, thereby decreasing the profits

for the owners.

BLowell System mills inspired the community with their ideals of freedom and education, thereby turning many of

the workers into abolitionists.

CThe use of slave labor on cotton plantations allowed Lowell System mills to make large profits, and the mills' need

for more cotton increased the

demand for slaves.

D.

The workers in Lowell System mills supported slavery because they were unwilling to see their wages go down if

enslaved workers were

freed and started receiving a salary.