This is the Plan of Palisado, the original layout of the town of Windsor, Connecticut, 1689. The blueprint plan for the town of Palisado, Windsor, Connecticut. The houses are packed close together in a small area near a river that is on a hill. The name of each family is next to their house. There is a meeting house in the middle of the town.

This is a surveyor's map of Mount Pleasant Plantation, Florida, 1784.

A plantation map in Florida. There are only a few homes and they are far apart from each other, separated by wide expanses of cultivated fields. There is a lake or river at one end of the plantation.

Based on these two images, which idea best describes the institution of slavery in the New England colonies?

Slavery was illegal in the New England colonies. However, the practice of indentured servitude was common and socially accepted; Quaker influence led to early abolition of slavery throughout New England.
Slavery was legal in the New England colonies, and it was practiced as commonly there as in the Southern colonies; New England communities relied on enslaved labor for cultivation of food crops.
Slavery was illegal in the New England colonies, but it was commonly practiced anyway, as the laws were not strictly enforced; New England slaveholders argued that enslaved people were paid with room and board.
Slavery was legal in the New England colonies. However, it was less commonly practiced there as in the Southern colonies; the lack of plantation agriculture in New England resulted in lower populations of enslaved people.