Question

Slavery developed more slowly in North America than in the English West Indies

because:
A. it was a longer trip from Africa to North America, making slavery less profitable.
B. the high death rate among tobacco workers made it economically unappealing to pay more for a
slave likely to die within a short time.
C. planters in Virginia and Maryland greed that indentured servants were far less troublesome.
D. those living in the British West Indies opposed slavery until the American colonies won their
independence in the Revolutionary War.

Answer 1

The triangle stopped first at the the West Indies from Africa where most slaves were pulled off board, then sent on to ports such as New Orleans to be sold. In this context, the closest would be A.