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Why did the Atlantic slave trade from Africa begin?

a
Africans needed military protection from the Europeans during the war.

b
American landowners needed more slaves to farm their tobacco fields.

c
European factories needed cotton from America to make their textiles.

d
European powers needed African workers for their sugar plantations.

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New sugar and tobacco plantations in the Americas and Caribbean heightened the demand for enslaved people, ultimately forcing a total of 12.5 million Africans across the Atlantic and into slavery.

That being said, the answer is B

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Answer: C

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