Seventeenth-century southern plantations
A. created few new wealthy landowners.
B. enabled planters to control their markets.
C. tended to be rough and relatively small.
D. rarely required the landowner do any manual labor.
E. used many more slaves than indentured servants.
C
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A. improved B. deteriorated C. skyrocketed D. all but disappeared