In the eighteenth century, West Indian plantations were controlled by a plantocracy,
A) a group of people concerned about the environment.
B) a small number of rich men who owned most of the land and slaves.
C) a group of botanists who encouraged the growth of new and exotic plants.
D) a religious sect of Protestantism.
E) none of these
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Q4: Among the planter elite in Saint Domingue,
Q5: "Drivers" were typically
A)white indentured servants.
B)white overseers.
C)free black
Q12: Manumission permitted slaves to
A)sell their surplus produce
Q12: Plantation slaves were motivated to work hard
Q13: Which area best illustrates the dramatic transformation
Q16: Where would slave children most likely be
Q17: On most islands, the percentage of slaves
Q19: In the seventeenth-century Caribbean, indentured servants cost
Q20: In addition to being half as expensive
Q20: Life expectancy for nineteenth-century Brazilian male slaves
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