Which of the Following Statements About the African Slave Trade

question 52

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about the African slave trade is false?

• A)African leaders who cooperated with European slave traders became rich from the slave trade.
• B)The Songhai leaders in northwest Africa sold slaves for horses and guns.
• C)The Obas in Benin banned the export of males from their territories until the end of the seventeenth century.
• D)none of these choices
• E)all of these choices

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