What conditions undercut the position of the Brazilian sugar plantation economy?
A) A demographic disaster among the Indians of Brazil resulted in a shortage of labor for the sugar plantations shortly after 1700.
B) Competition from English, French, and Dutch plantation colonies in the Caribbean led to rising prices for slaves and falling prices for sugar.
C) The European market was flooded with sugar supplied from Asian colonies.
D) A series of unusually wet winters flooded the traditional sugar regions and caused Brazilian planters to seek new land for the production of sugar.
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