The development of rice plantations in South Carolina:
a) would have proven impossible without the importation of thousands of European indentured servants to serve as a labor force.
b) required so much capital investment that Carolina's planter elite never became as wealthy as those in the Chesapeake region.
c) led to a black majority in that colony by the 1770s.
d) occurred only after the colony's planters failed to cultivate cotton.
Answer: C