Which of the following is true of the English West Indies in the seventeenth century?

A) By the end of the century, the African population far outnumbered the European population on most islands.
B) Mixed economies with small farms worked by indentured servants dominated islands such as Barbados throughout the century.
C) Frequent uprisings by African slaves caused the English to abandon the West Indies by the 1680s and to relocate staple crop production to mainland North America.
D) The free labor system of the West Indies stood in stark contrast to the slave labor system of the Chesapeake.
E) Indentured servants replaced African slaves in the West Indies once the demand for slaves in Carolina drained the African population from the islands.

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Sarangbe Dukuray · Accepted Answer

Final Answer : A, Explanation :  By the end of the seventeenth century, the African population did indeed far outnumber the European population on most islands in the English West Indies, largely due to the importation of African slaves to work on sugar plantations.

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