Question

What impact did the slave trade have on the African population? *

1: It was beneficial to African societies because it created more opportunities for those who remained.
2: It was disastrous for African societies as a whole because it drained them of their most productive people.
3: It made the African population stronger politically and economically as a result of the slave trade.
4: It had relatively little impact on Africa because so few people were exported to the Americas.

Answer 1

The use of African slave labour was not new. The Spanish and Portuguese had been using African slaves since the 16th century. However, the Atlantic slave trade of the 18th century was a new kind of slavery and was on a scale much greater than ever before.

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