Because the fort was a blockage for runners who got supplies from Europe. By the end of the civil war Galveston was the only port the confederates controlled.
The negative impact of the international slave trade on Africa was immense. It can be seen on the personal, family, communal, and continental levels. In addition to the millions of able-bodied individuals captured and transported, the death toll and the economic and environmental destruction resulting from wars and slave raids were startlingly high. In the famines that followed military actions, the old and very young were often killed or left to starve.
I think the answer would be C. Improving workers lives but leaving society's structure alone.
