C.) Diversifying. The farmer want to enlarge or vary the range of his products from the field.
The intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.
Although your question does not give very much context regarding what was happening in that specific piece of literature,
The idea that nearby women were making fun of/snickering at the protagonist in the text suggests that she is not well-liked. It also could suggest that the women who were snickering are the antagonists/ are mean to her.
I think the viewpoint of the whole passage is that “Life is the same for enslaved people whether in the city or on a plantation”
