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Answer:
The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas. The slave trade regularly used the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage, and existed from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
Explanation:
“Even though life is a struggle, people must persevere.”
A) it was a sign that the ruler was not virtuous
