Author Question: Why did the British want to take over the slave trade in the late-seventeenth century? A) Their ... (Read 84 times)

gbarreiro · **on:** Aug 9, 2018

Why did the British want to take over the slave trade in the late-seventeenth century?

A) Their ongoing war with France demanded a supply of soldiers.
B) They needed labor for tobacco and sugar cultivation in North America and the Caribbean.
C) The availability of Native American labor was dwindling.
D) They had begun to establish cotton plantations in Brazil and needed labor.

Question 2

Examine the eighteenth-century print of Luanda that appears in Chapter 2. What aspects of the Atlantic slave trade surface in the image?

A) The city possesses a harbor.
B) African people are shown at work in the image.
C) European kings line the streets of the city in royal procession.
D) European armies fight in the distance over the slave trade.