CHAPTER 26 TEST QUESTIONS MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. Thomas Peters was a. a wealthy plantation owner who became the largest slave owner in the Carolinas. b. the captain of the first ship to bring slaves to North America. c. an American congressman who played a key role in drafting legislation to end the slave trade. d. the author of The Crime of Slavery. e. central in promoting the establishment of a colony for ex-slaves in Sierra Leone. * (p. 695) 2. The Black Pioneers were a. Africans who served as indentured servants in return for land in the Caribbean. b. escaped slaves who fought to maintain British rule in the North American colonies. * c. former slaves who fought on the colonial side in the American Revolution.