I think the third option would be a suitable answer.
A. with captured Africans who were brought as slaves
During that time period, certain African group leaders would conquer other African tribes and sell the members as slaves to Europeans, who then sold them to colonists in the Americas. These kidnapped Africans were then used to fill the need for labor on plantations, including sugar, in the Americas.
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The 'mother country' to Brewster and Robinson was, of course, England and that was generally what was meant when the phrase came into use in the USA. They didn't coin the phrase themselves but probably read it in the works of a prominent Puritan of the day - Arthur Golding.
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The answer is D.- The other major manufacturers of the world stopped trading.
