Sugar Grown with Slave Labor on Which Island Became a Model

question 51

Multiple Choice

Sugar grown with slave labor on which island became a model for the slave-based sugar economy of the New World?

• A)Crete
• B)Cyprus
• C)Sicily
• D)All of these are correct.
• E)None of these are correct.

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