Impeding - to delay or prevent by obstructing it/them.
so your answer is B. Obstructing; slowing down.
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After enslaved Native American laborers began to die due to exposure to disease, European powers began purchasing enslaved Africans, who became their primary labor source. Britain sent their first slave ships to the British West Indies to work on tobacco plantations and then later sugarcane plantations.
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