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    (D) The heritage was not formed out of the experiences of only a single generation of slaves.

    (E) The heritage was formed primarily out of slaves' experiences of interdependence on newly created plantations in the Southwest.

    23. It can be inferred from the passage that, of the following, the most probable reason why a historian of slavery might be interested in studying the type of plantations mentioned in line 25 is that this type would

    (A) give the historian access to the most complete plantation birth registers

    (B) permit the historian to observe the kinship patterns that had been most popular among West African tribes

    (C) provide the historian with evidence con- cerning the preference of freed slaves for stable monogamy

    (D) furnish the historian with the opportunity to discover the kind of marital com- mitment that slaves themselves chose to have

    (E) allow the historian to examine the influence of slaves' preferences on the actions of plantation owners

    24. According to the passage, all of the following are true of the West African rules governing marriage mentioned in lines 46-50 EXCEPT:

    (A) The rules were derived from rules gov- erning fictive kinship arrangements.

    (B) The rules forbade marriages between close kin.

    (C) The rules are mentioned in Herbert Gutman's study.

    (D) The rules were not uniform in all respects from one West African tribe to another.

    (E) The rules have been considered to be a possible source of slaves' marriage preferences.

    (A) These practices began to alter sometime around the mid-eighteenth century.

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