Why Did the Slave Trade End

question 16

Multiple Choice

Why did the slave trade end?

• A) Slave revolts and humanitarian reform movements ended it.
• B) Africa refused to sell slaves to Europeans anymore, even for guns.
• C) The plantation system became self-sufficient.
• D) The soil could no longer support sugar crops.
• E) Too many slaves died on the voyages to make slave trading profitable anymore.

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