9. By the end of the colonial period, the number of mixed people-meaning not white, not indigenous, and not African, but culturally and racially mixed-had grown. Why
did this happen?
a. It was a product of slavery being abolished in the late 1700s.
b. It was a result of the casta system
c. It was a product of centuries of transculturation.
d. It proved that hegemony, as explained by Chasteen, did not work on the ground.