Question

Southerners believed that slave labor was superior to the paid labor force in the North because
northern workers were not as skilled as slaves.
northern employers had to hire new workers often.
slaveholders fortunes depended on the well-being of their slaves.
slaves appeared content with their conditions.

Answer 1

C, the south considered their treatment of slaves were better because you always protect what you own than rent
In fact the term wage-slave came about because you need to work in order to eat and have to accept what wages are offered, especially with competition for jobs.

Answer 2

The slaves had no sense of motivation. If they gained freedom, it was because the white man gave it to them. Otherwise, It would have been another 100 years before they were actually freed.