What Development in the Caribbean Posed a Particularly Challenging Warning

question 31

Multiple Choice

What development in the Caribbean posed a particularly challenging warning to white slave owners in the United States during the 1790s?

• A) the slave revolt in Haiti
• B) new British policies restricting American trade
• C) Spain's ban on the slave trade
• D) France's refusal to ratify Pinckney's Treaty

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