Question 75 of 128

What group of people was taken and sold as slaves?

Accepted Answers

  • • Africans
  • • People from Africa

Why This Matters

Millions of Africans were forcibly brought to America and enslaved from the 1600s until slavery ended in 1865.

Memory Tip

Africans were enslaved in America.

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Colonial Period and Independence(American History)

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