The Following Questions Refer to the Excerpt Below

question 14

Multiple Choice

The following questions refer to the excerpt below.
"For a historical appreciation [of the slave trade],one must turn to the fairly abundant but problematic writing of sixteenth and seventeenth century visitors from Europe,and a few central African texts. Many of the [European] visitors,especially missionaries,were hostile to African religious ideas and practices,which caused,which caused them to misrepresent African religion,but these early observers had the tremendous advantage of witnessing the religions at first hand during the period of the slave trade. Contemporary eyewitness testimony,for all its problems,is still [central to] the historians' craft."
Linda Heywood,Central Africans and Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora,2002
-Within the Spanish settlements,slaves would find themselves

• A) part of a rigidly defined caste system.
• B) working essentially independently for Spanish landowners.
• C) plagued by European diseases for which they had no immunity.
• D) repeatedly forced to give up territory to the expanding settlement patterns.

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Definitions:

Conversion

The unauthorized act of possessing or using someone else's property as if it were one's own, which interferes with the owner's rights.

Dominion

Supreme authority or control over a domain, or the ownership and absolute right to use, enjoy, and dispose of property.

Real Property

Land and anything permanently attached to it, including buildings and other structures, considered a form of real estate.

Conversion

is a tort that involves the unauthorized taking or use of someone else's personal property, depriving them of its possession or use.