Which Statement About the African Slave Trade in the Americas

question 35

Multiple Choice

Which statement about the African slave trade in the Americas is FALSE?

• 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) Black slaves outnumbered white servants in the Chesapeake by 1650.

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