How did slavery support the Southern code? It created more cotton for fine clothing.

It allowed white Southerners to work more closely with the land.

It allowed white Southerners to pursue ladylike and gentlemanly activities.

ANSWER-- c. It allowed white southerners to pursue ladylike and gentlemanly activity's

It allowed white Southerners to pursue ladylike and gentlemanly activities.

Explanation:

The southern describe a list of action and behaviors that considered as socially acceptable if people in the south want to considered as men with high standard.

Most of the behaviors/actions within this code tend to put more focus on elegance that's closely related to felinity rather than masculinity (such as pay attention to the way they dress, how to politely speak, how to sing/dance, etc)

Slavery allowed the white southerners to pursue such activities because they slaves can be assigned to do hard physical labor that's usually associated with masculinity.