How Did Larger Planters Have the Time to Concentrate on Marketing

question 38

Multiple Choice

How did larger planters have the time to concentrate on marketing and finance while still running a profitable plantation?

• A) They left their wives in charge of plantation discipline.
• B) They had so many slaves that they policed themselves.
• C) They hired overseers to go to the fields with the slaves.
• D) They hired white servants to work the fields with the slaves.

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