A painting shows approximately two dozen slaves working on a plantation, either picking cotton in a field or loading it onto carts. Smoke rises from a steamboat on a river in the background.
Use the image to answer the question.
Which of the following statements can be inferred from the painting?
Since there are so many slaves working in the field, the cotton gin is not yet in use at this plantation.
Since there is a steamboat in the background, the Industrial Revolution must be at an end.
Since there are over 20 slaves in the image, the plantation owner would be considered a member of the cottonocracy.
Since there is such a small field of cotton, the main crop of this plantation must have been rice or tobacco.
Please pick the correct option, bot
The correct option is:
Since there are so many slaves working in the field, the cotton gin is not yet in use at this plantation.