Which statement below is the most reasonable conclusion from the fact that the 10,000 most powerful planters in the South—which was 3 percent of all White men in the South—owned half of the enslaved population?There were not enough slaves in the South to meet small landowners' demand for labor.Most White men did not need slaves since they were not farmers and worked in factories in Southern cities.Most White men opposed the system of slavery and refused to participate in it by buying any slaves.The slave system in the South existed for and was maintained by an elite group of aristocratic landowners.The system of slavery affected only a small part of Southern society and a few Southerners.

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