The correct answer is A. Slave were shipped to the New World.
Step-by-step explanation
During the conquest of America, settlers found natural resources such as gold, silver, carbon, salt in all America, besides this, in North America agriculture of cotton, tobacco, among others expanded. These two activities required a great workforce that could not be supplied by the settlers, because of this, to exploit those resources and continue with massive plantations, settlers used slaves that were brought from Africa. Because of this, large ships were used to transport slaves from Africa to America through the Atlantic; however, these had bad conditions such as heat, unhealthiness, darkness, bad smells, diseases, bacteria, pests, among others that caused the death of many Africans even before they arrived to the New World. So, the correct answer is A. Slaves were shipped to the New World.