What Is the Primary Reason That Caribbean Colonies Began to Turn

question 39

Multiple Choice

What is the primary reason that Caribbean colonies began to turn to indentured labor as a workforce in the mid-nineteenth century?

• A) These individuals tended to work harder than slaves.
• B) By this period most of the colonial governments began to free their slaves.
• C) By this time nearly the entire African continent had been depopulated.
• D) By this period most of the African slaves in the Caribbean colonies had fled to Maroon settlements.
• E) There was a need for the highly specialized skills they brought.

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