Question

why did africans come to north america through the middle passage?
o a. they came because europeans offered free passage in return for manufactured goods.
o b. they came because they wanted to sell sugar and cotton from africa to the colonists.
o c. they came because the europeans forced them to leave africa.
o d. they came because they wanted to start new lives in the new world.

Explanation:

• Option A: Africans were not offered free passage for manufactured goods; the Middle Passage was part of the trans - Atlantic slave trade, not a voluntary trade of labor for goods in this way.
• Option B: Africans were not coming to sell goods; they were the ones being traded as slaves, and sugar and cotton were produced in the Americas, not sold by Africans from Africa.
• Option C: The Middle Passage was part of the trans - Atlantic slave trade, where Europeans (primarily) captured or bought Africans and forced them onto ships to be transported to the Americas as slaves. So they were forced to leave Africa.
• Option D: Africans did not come voluntarily to start new lives; they were enslaved and forced to come.

Answer:

C. They came because the Europeans forced them to leave Africa.