Which of the Following Statements About Slave Resistance in the Caribbean

question 37

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about slave resistance in the Caribbean is LEAST accurate?

• A)At the end of Tacky's Rebellion in 1760,authorities executed more than 500 Jamaican slaves.
• B)Because of the marked rebelliousness of Caribbean slaves,planters in North America insisted on only purchasing "saltwater" blacks from Africa.
• C)After existing for more than a century and contributing to a number of slave rebellions,a Maroon community in Saint Domingue gained the recognition of the island's colonial government in the 1780s.
• D)Although slaves experienced cruelty throughout most of the Caribbean,they enjoyed relatively benign treatment on Danish islands,which were not coincidentally marked by a near complete absence of slave rebellions.