TIMED Which question does this passage answer most
effectively?
Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World.
In the sugar colonies, the wounds of slavery were never
far beneath the surface. The Africans who had worked in
sugar quickly left the plantations and tried to farm or
moved to nearby towns. As one planter said, it made no
sense to believe that "the Negro would become a
grateful and cheerful free laborer on the soil which had
been watered by his tears in slavery." But what could the
former slaves do? Every Indian who accepted the paltry
wages specified in the indenture contract lowered the
price an African could charge for his labor.
O Why did Indians come to work on the plantations?
O Why did Africans leave the plantations to farm
elsewhere?
O Why did the Indians accept low wages for work on
plantations?
O Why did indenture contracts include low wages for
Africans?