Which One of the Following Statements Is NOT True of the Slave

question 42

Multiple Choice

Which one of the following statements is NOT true of the slave trade in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world?

• A) Slaves were bought and sold in the Atlantic world as part of a series of trading routes that also involved British manufactured goods and colonial products such as tobacco and sugar.
• B) The Atlantic slave trade was a vital part of world commerce in the 1700s.
• C) Even those in areas where slavery was only a minor institution, such as Massachusetts and Rhode Island, profited from the slave trade.
• D) Slightly more than half of slaves from Africa were taken to mainland North America (what became the United States).
• E) Many slaves died of diseases on board slave ships during the Middle Passage.

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