How Did Europeans Initially Justify the Enslavement of Africans

question 58

Multiple Choice

How did Europeans initially justify the enslavement of Africans?

• A)Europeans, who were culturally and racially superior, offered guidance to the inferior Africans.
• B)Africans were an alien group unlike any other and were out of necessity placed into bondage.
• C)Africans were a people biologically distinct from the Europeans, and Africans' physical characteristics produced less intelligent, more primitive people.
• D)Enslavement benefited Africans by bringing Christianity to them.

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