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

It was disastrous for African societies as a whole because it drained them of their most productive people.