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Why did the transportation of many enslaved people westward over the Appalachian Mountains often break up enslaved families?

- Slaveholders often transferred enslaved people to their children when they moved west.

- Slaveholders wanted to discourage enslaved people from forming partnerships and having children.

- Enslaved families in the Chesapeake sometimes lived on multiple, neighboring plantations.

- Slaveholders only transported enslaved men to the West.