In the Chesapeake region, slavery

a$.$

was geographically restricted to the Tidewater area until transportation improved in the nineteenth century.

b$.$

was so widely practiced that nearly three$-$fifths of white households in $1770$ included a slaveowner.

c$.$

was the labor system preferred by planters as early as the $1620$s$.$

d$.$

rapidly became the dominant labor system after $1680.$

e$.$

allowed planters to make vast profits from cotton and rice as well as from tobacco.