To provide labor for their sugar plantations, the Portuguese by the 1580s
A. made extensive use of indentured servants.
B. copied the Spanish encomiendas.
C. offered higher wages than did their Spanish counterparts.
D. copied the Spanish repartimiento system.
E. relied on imported African slaves as laborers.
Answer: E
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