Why did Portuguese sugar planters largely abandon the island of São Tomé in the seventeenth century?
A) warfare conducted by escaped slaves
B) diminishing profits as the island soil "played out"
C) a persistent white grub infestation that destroyed the sugar cane
D) the end of the slave trade
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