What happened in the seventeenth century when land ran out for slave plantations in Barbados?

A) Slavery quickly ended on this Caribbean island.
B) Slave owners expanded into New Orleans.
C) England sold the colony to the Dutch.
D) Plantation owners acquired landholdings in the Carolinas.
E) Most plantation owners converted their estates into shipbuilding companies.

Slave Plantations

Large estates where enslaved African Americans were forced to work, primarily in the southern United States before the Civil War, mainly on cotton, tobacco, and sugar farms.

Barbados

An island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, known for its beaches, history, and cultural heritage.

Landholdings

Properties or parcels of land owned by an individual, a collective, or an institution.