Question

Which of the following is a reason why so many Brazilian and Caribbean people are of African decent?

Select the best answer from the choices provided.
A.
The largest percentage of Africans in the slave trade was brought to sugar plantations in Brazil or the Caribbean.
B.
Nearly all of the Africans in North and South America who escaped enslavement fled to the Caribbean and to Brazil.
C.
Enslaved Africans in the Caribbean and Brazil had more control over their labor than in other places, so more of them survived enslavement.
D.
All answers are correct.

Answer 1

A. The largest percentage of Africans in the slave trade was brought to sugar plantations in Brazil or the Caribbean.

Step-by-step explanation:

From the 1500s most of the African slaves captured by Spanish and Portuguese colonizers were sent off Brazil and the Caribbean. There were big sugar plantations there, among other products, and many of them worked at those plantations. Sugar cane was first planted in Brazil but is spread over the territory.

Other colonists and Europeans also owned plantations here, especially in the Caribbean, for example, Dutch, English, and Sephardic Jews. Sugar became one of the biggest parts of the economy for the Caribbean until the 20th century, and Brabardso was the sugar capital. African slaves worked at these plantations all until the abolition of slavery.