Chapter 34. Reflections on Toward a Slave Labor System, Chapter 3

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Correct. The answer is b. The author’s main point in this section is that, after the 1670s, English colonists in North America began to follow the example of New Spain and the West Indies and use enslaved Africans to operate their tobacco plantations.

Incorrect. The answer is b. The author’s main point in this section is that, after the 1670s, English colonists in North America began to follow the example of New Spain and the West Indies and use enslaved Africans to operate their tobacco plantations.

Correct. The answer is d. In order to support his argument that the West Indies served as an important influence on the development of slavery in the North American colonies, the author indicates that the Carolina colony was settled by Barbadian sugar planters who brought thousands of African slaves with them when they came to North America in the 1670s.

Incorrect. The answer is d. In order to support his argument that the West Indies served as an important influence on the development of slavery in the North American colonies, the author indicates that the Carolina colony was settled by Barbadian sugar planters who brought thousands of African slaves with them when they came to North America in the 1670s.

Correct. The answer is a. In order to demonstrate that Chesapeake planters began to favor enslaved Africans over indentured servants, the author cites evidence that the population of black people in the Chesapeake region increased fivefold between 1670 and 1700 and that, by 1700, one out of eight people in the region was a black person from Africa.

Incorrect. The answer is a. In order to demonstrate that Chesapeake planters began to favor enslaved Africans over indentured servants, the author cites evidence that the population of black people in the Chesapeake region increased fivefold between 1670 and 1700 and that, by 1700, one out of eight people in the region was a black person from Africa.

Correct. The answer is a. The author suggests that one of the reasons Southern planters came to prefer slaves to indentured servants was that enslaved workers were easily identifiable by their race and they never became free. Planters recognized that, unlike the discontented former indentured servants who had caused considerable social unrest in the Chesapeake in the 1670s, slaves would never obtain free status and demand economic and political privileges.

Incorrect. The answer is a. The author suggests that one of the reasons Southern planters came to prefer slaves to indentured servants was that enslaved workers were easily identifiable by their race and they never became free. Planters recognized that, unlike the discontented former indentured servants who had caused considerable social unrest in the Chesapeake in the 1670s, slaves would never obtain free status and demand economic and political privileges.

Correct. The answer is c. The author argues that the growth of the race-based slave labor system in the Chesapeake between the 1670s and 1700 emphasized the privileges of freedom shared by all white people, thereby reducing the economic and social tensions that had divided them at the time of Bacon’s Rebellion.

Incorrect. The answer is c. The author argues that the growth of the race-based slave labor system in the Chesapeake between the 1670s and 1700 emphasized the privileges of freedom shared by all white people, thereby reducing the economic and social tensions that had divided them at the time of Bacon’s Rebellion.

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