A. with captured Africans who were brought as slaves
During that time period, certain African group leaders would conquer other African tribes and sell the members as slaves to Europeans, who then sold them to colonists in the Americas. These kidnapped Africans were then used to fill the need for labor on plantations, including sugar, in the Americas.
Individual bootleggers transporting booze by land to Seattle would hide it in automobiles under false floorboards with felt padding or in fake gas tanks. Sometimes whiskey was literally mixed with the air in the tubes of tires.
