Like other blacks in the western hemisphere, the ______ majority of African Americans were brought to North America as slaves between the 1700s and the early 1800s. (overwhelm)

A．Thus, without the cultural diversity represented by the American South, the culture of colonial America would certainly have been homogeneous in nature.
B．Thus, the contribution of Southern colonials to American culture was certainly overshadowed by that of the Puritans.
C．Thus, convergence, not divergence, seems to have characterized the cultural development of the American colonies in the eighteenth century.
D．Thus, the culture of America during the Colonial period was far more sensitive to outside influence than historians are accustomed to acknowledge.