To keep up with European demand, how did African slave traders enslave people? A.They took prisoners of war and raided villages. B.They stopped selling enslaved people to the Middle East. C. They traded goods with Africans on the West Coast. D.They improved conditions on slave ships to help more people survive.

In most cases, enslaved persons purchased by Europeans were taken prisoner in the ongoing conflict between African governments. Some Africans had turned a profit by seizing Africans from other ethnic groups or selling them as war captives.

What was African slave trade and why was it known so?

Various enslaved African individuals were transported by slave traders, primarily to the Americas, during the Atlantic slave trade, transatlantic slave trade, or Euro-American slave trade. From the 16th to the 19th century, the Middle Passage and the triangular trade route were frequently employed in the slave trade. Most of those who were sold into slavery and transported as part of the transatlantic slave trade were people from Central and West Africa, although some were also directly captured by slave traders during coastal raids. Europeans gathered and imprisoned the enslaved at forts on the African coast before transporting them to the Americas.

With the exception of the Portuguese, European slave dealers were typically absent from the raids because, during the slave trade era, the average lifespan for Europeans in sub-Saharan Africa was less than one year (which was prior to the widespread availability of quinine as a treatment for malaria). The economics of the colonial South Atlantic and Caribbean regions relied heavily on labour for the production of sugarcane and other goods. Western European governments competing to establish colonial empires in the late 17th and early 18th century saw this as essential.

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Hence option A is correct answer

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