Which answer best summarizes the main benefit of slavery to the colonies?

Slavery helped secure settlements in the New World against invading forces.
Buying slaves was a way to immediately improve one's status in the New World.
Slavery allowed the colonists to use natural resources for maximum profit.
Owning slaves offered colonists a way to spread out into other parts of the country.

Question

Which answer best summarizes the main benefit of slavery to the colonies?

 Slavery helped secure settlements in the New World against invading forces.
 Buying slaves was a way to immediately improve one's status in the New World.
 Slavery allowed the colonists to use natural resources for maximum profit.
 Owning slaves offered colonists a way to spread out into other parts of the country.

blackfireskull · Answer

its either C or D. (guessing) im not 100% sure though