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Which of the Following Is a True Statement About the Atlantic

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Which of the following is a true statement about the Atlantic slave trade's effect in West Africa?


A) It had little effect on West Africa, because more than 90 percent of persons enslaved came from East Africa.
B) It helped lead to the rise of militarized states in West Africa, whose large armies preyed upon their neighbors in order to capture slaves.
C) It encouraged the expansion of West Africa's domestic textile industry, which supplied clothing for slaves.
D) It led to an increase in West Africa's population during the 1700s as slave traders encouraged women to have more children who would then be sold into slavery.
E) It successfully united West African nations to resist European slave traders, who reluctantly ended the trade by 1763.

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