What Happened in the Seventeenth Century When Land Ran Out

question 32

Multiple Choice

What happened in the seventeenth century when land ran out for slave plantations in Barbados?

• A) Slavery quickly ended on this Caribbean island.
• B) Slave owners expanded into New Orleans.
• C) England sold the colony to the Dutch.
• D) Plantation owners acquired landholdings in the Carolinas.
• E) Most plantation owners converted their estates into shipbuilding companies.

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