What group of people was taken to America and sold as slaves?

• A. Africans
• B. Native Americans
• C. Europeans
• D. Asians

Answer: (A)

Enslavement in early America was driven by the transatlantic slave trade, which forcibly brought Africans to the Americas to work on plantations and in other labor systems. Millions were captured or sold in West and Central Africa, loaded onto ships under brutal conditions, and shipped across the Atlantic—often called the Middle Passage—where they and their descendants were owned as property. This established a racialized system of slavery that dominated the labor force in many colonies for centuries.

Native Americans were enslaved in some contexts, especially in the earliest colonial periods, but the large-scale, transatlantic slave trade that supplied enslaved labor in the American colonies mainly involved Africans. Europeans and Asians were not the groups primarily taken to America and sold as slaves in this historical context.