Please Identify the FALSE Statement

question 79

Multiple Choice

Please identify the FALSE statement.

• A) From the early 1700s to the mid-1800s much surplus capital and wealth in North America came directly, or by means of economic multiplier effects, from the slave trade and plantations.
• B) From the 1700s to the mid-1800s a large proportion of agricultural exports in world trade was produced by enslaved people of African descent.
• C) Much wealth generated between the 1700s and the 1860s came from the forced migration of the slave trade.
• D) Much wealth generated between the 1700s and the 1860s came from the violently coerced labor of enslaved men, women, and children on plantations.
• E) Even without the often brutally whipped labor of enslaved black Americans, there would probably have been a successful textile industry in the U.S.

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