Which set of words from the passage provide the reader with clues that this
narrative is set in the pre-civil war United States?
A) manager, business, sloop
B) farm, government, disputes
C) plantation, slave overseer
D) allowance, clothing, childhood
Prior to the civil war Slavery had not yet ended. In this day and age you will not see the words in C being used very often, but pre civil war when slavery was common place it was likely.