The Growth of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in the Seventeenth

question 1

Multiple Choice

The growth of the transatlantic slave trade in the seventeenth century was facilitated by Europeans' racial ideas that

• A) converting Africans to Christianity would make them more civilized.
• B) African women were hardy and would make excellent mates for the colonists.
• C) African childrearing and clothing practices were inferior to theirs and Africans were like animals.
• D) only men were useful as slaves and so only men should be brought over to the Americas.

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