The Following Questions Refer to the Excerpt Below

question 43

Multiple Choice

The following questions refer to the excerpt below.
"Friday Night last a Sloop from St.Anguilla,came to Anchor in Nantasket Road . . .The said Master further informs us,that while he lay at Anguilla a Bermudas Sloop arrived there from St.John's,the Master of which informed him,that the Number of Whites destroyed by the Negroes of that Island did not exceed 60,some having found Means to escape their Fury.That they kill'd all the Men and aged Women,that they could lay their Hands on,and debauched the young Women,and that they kept Possession of the Island and Fort for 8 Days,when a Number of Whites and Negroes came from St.Thomas's and attack'd the Fort,which they took after a stout Resistance;and among the rest,had the good Luck to take the Ringleader or Captain of the Black Gentry,whom they flea'd alive,and tortured several others of them to Death.Upon this Defeat,most of the Negroes that were scattered about upon the Island,took all the Canoes and other small Craft they could find,and quitted the Place,and 'tis thought they are gone to Cape Fransway,&c.This Rising of the Negroes at St.John's,has so alarmed our Islands,that they keep 30 or 40 Men every Night upon the Watch upon each Island,to prevent a Surprize.'Tis further said,that all the Islands in the West Indies are under Apprehensions of a War. . ."
John P.Zenger,New-York Weekly Journal,March 11,1733
-All of the following were true of the period described in the passage,except that

• A) the use of indentured servants as laborers was declining.
• B) New England relied on large-scale agriculture.
• C) slaves disrupted kinship relationships in the colonies.
• D) the Atlantic slave trade was flourishing.

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