Slavery developed more slowly in North America than in the English West Indies because:

A. it was a longer trip from Africa to North America, making slavery less profitable.
B. planters in Virginia and Maryland agreed that indentured servants were far less troublesome.
C. the high death rate among tobacco workers made it economically unappealing to pay more for a slave likely to die within a short time.
D. Parliament passed a law in 1643 that gave tax breaks to British West Indian planters who imported slaves but not to American colonists who imported slaves.
E. those living in the British West Indies opposed slavery until the American colonies won their independence in the Revolutionary War.