You don't show options, so here are the different definitions
1. "the study of past events, particularly in human affairs."
2. "the whole series of past events connected with someone or something."
3. "a continuous, typically chronological, record of important or public events or of a particular trend or institution."
The answer is b african slave merchants
This was Harriet Tubman. Make sure you try to "Google" these things first.
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