If the sentences in the passage above are true, then they support which one of the following statements?
| A. Arguing that laws needed to be enacted recognizing and protecting the institution of slavery before the practice of slavery could have existed in the New World is to ignore historical fact. |
| B. Prior to 1700, some of the Europeans who came to the New World enslaved native Indian populations. |
| C. Slavery was practiced in many parts of the world before Africans were first brought to the New World as slaves. |
| D. The prior existence of a supportive legal system is needed before an institutional practice can develop. |
| E. One of the reasons slavery developed in the New World was the tremendous need for manual labor. |