Answer B: They viewed them as property rather than as people
The Middle Passage was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of Africans were forcibly transported to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade. Ships departed Europe for African markets with manufactured goods, which were traded for purchased or kidnapped Africans, who were transported across the Atlantic as slaves; the slaves were then sold or traded for raw materials, which would be transported back to Europe to complete the voyage. Voyages on the Middle Passage were large financial undertakings, generally organized by companies or groups of investors rather than individuals
Slaves' treatment was horrific because the captured African men and women were considered less than human; they were "cargo", or "goods", and treated as such; they were transported for marketing.
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NATO was established as a political and military alliance in 1949 by the United States and its Western European allies. There were fears of a Soviet aggressive move toward Western Europe with the purpose to expand communism; large Soviet armies were stationed in East Germany and other Eastern European countries; Soviet influence had proved decisive to install Communists in high office in some places. In 1949, the Federal Republic of Germany was established, which caused Soviet fears and led to the creation of the German Democratic Republic (a communist state). When in 1955 the FRG was incorporated into NATO, the Soviet Union responded by creating the Warsaw Pact, the political and military alliance of the Eastern Bloc. Invasion from the West has always been a major fear in Russian security thinking, especially after WWII. Both NATO and the Warsaw Pact played an important role in the overall diplomatic and political confrontation of the Cold War between the two top players, the USA and the USSR.
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