Seventeenth-century colonial tobacco growers usually responded to depressed prices for their crop by
a. selling excess slaves to produce extra income.
b. selling land to reduce their volume of production.
c. growing more tobacco and bringing more of it to market.
d. planting corn and wheat instead of tobacco.
e. cutting the wages of indentured servants.
c
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