All of the Following Were True of the African Slave

question 57

Multiple Choice

All of the following were true of the African slave trade in the Americas except

• A) of the 10 million carried to the New World, only about 400,000 ended up in North America.
• B) as late as 1670 they numbered only about 7 percent of the southern plantation population.
• C) white servants were far less costly than the high priced African slaves.
• D) most were hauled to Spanish and Portuguese South America or the West Indies.
• E) all of these were true.

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