The "$24 deal" refers to
a. the amount of money, expressed in contemporary currency, needed to fund one's passage to the New World
b. the transaction that the Dutch believed gave them title to the island of Manhattan
c. the average price of a slave at auction in colonial Virginia
d. a bribery attempt made by colonial merchants of British customs officials
e. the purchase of a "letter of indulgence" from Catholic officials in Maryland in order to be forgiven of one's sins
Ans: b. the transaction that the Dutch believed gave them title to the island of Manhattan
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