Question

Martha lived in the Middle Colonies and owned a large tobacco plantation. Some seasons hired other colonists to help her bring in the harvest, but often they were busy tending their own fields. A few times she paid for the passage of indentured servants to the colonies, but they were only a short term solution. What might situations such as Martha's have led to in the colonies? an increase in the African slave trade B ) an increase in the price of tobacco in England a decrease in agriculture in the Middle Colonies D) a decrease in the popularity of the Middle Colonies

Answer 1

Answer: A. an increase in the African slave trade

Explanation:

The situation depicted shows that Martha suffered from a lack of a steady supply of labor. She could not rely on other colonists because they had their own farms to tend to and she could not rely on indentured servants because they would eventually work off their debt and leave her.

Problems like these led to the rise of the African slave trade because if Martha were to buy enslaved people, she would own them for life which would have given her a steady supply of labor.