All of the following are true about Africans in the North American colonies in the 1600s EXCEPT
a. the first Africans were brought as indentured servants
b. laws enslaving Africans were passed in Virginia and Maryland in the 1660s
c. there were enslaved Africans in the Middle Colonies
d. the number of enslaved Africans in the Southern Colonies was small because plantation agriculture had not yet developed
e. New Englanders built a prosperous business based on slave trading
Answer: d. the number of enslaved Africans in the Southern Colonies was small because plantation agriculture had not yet developed
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