Which of the Following Is Not True About the Importation

question 14

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is not true about the importation of slaves into the Western Hemisphere in the colonial period?

• A) About five million slaves were forcibly brought to the West Indies and Brazil.
• B) Only about five percent of Africans were shipped to the United States.
• C) American colonists bought most slaves in the seventeenth century, but increasingly shied away from the trade as they approached revolution.
• D) More than 95 percent of colonial Africans remained slaves for life.
• E) People were enslaved in Africa as a result of kidnapping.

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