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American HistoryColonial Period and Independence

What group of people was taken and sold as slaves?

Accepted answers:

  • Africans
  • People from Africa

Why this is the correct answer

Africans were forcibly brought to America and sold into slavery, primarily to work on plantations in the South. Slavery was a brutal institution that lasted for over two centuries in the United States. Its legacy had profound and lasting effects on American society and history.

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