Question

Between 1670 and 1715, as many as 50,000 Indians were sold as slaves in Charles Town for export to other regions in the Americas. The number of Native American slaves exported from Charles Town exceeded the number of Africans imported.
A) True
B) False

Answer 1

Answer:

B) False

Explanation:

Over 400,000 Africans were taken as slaves to the U.S. mainland between the seventeenth and nineteenth century.

When we consider the Americas as a whole, over 12 million Africans were imported as slaves, the majority of them going to Brazil and the Caribbean.