Question

What might be the cargo of a ship moving from new england to west africa in the trans-atlantic slave trade

Answer 1

Answer choices are:

Cloth

Guns

Molasses

Rum

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Correct answer choice is:

RUM

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Explanation:

Transatlantic slave trade, the part of the global slave trade that moved to connect 10 million and 12 million captured Africans beyond the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas from the 16th to the 19th centenary. Throughout the top years of the slave business, between 1740 and 1810, Africa furnished 60,000 slaves a year, outnumbering European vagrants by a rate of 4 or 5 to 1.

Answer 2

Rum would most likely be found