SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The risk of modern slavery is exceptionally high in Africa. Over 80% of sub-Saharan African countries feature in the two highest-risk categories, including Kenya and Nigeria, two of the region’s three largest economies.
Detailed explanation-2: -Africa and Enslavement Ivory, gold and other trade resources attracted Europeans to West Africa. As demand for cheap labour to work on plantations in the Americas grew, people enslaved in West Africa became the most valuable ‘commodity’ for European traders. Slavery existed in Africa before Europeans arrived.
Detailed explanation-3: -Positions like carpenters, blacksmiths, bricklayers, and engineers gave the slaves the opportunity for greater mobility than women.” Females would cook, do house work and take care of the children they bore while males would do hard labor such as plowmen, drivers and many more.