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Which statement summarizes how Portuguese traders amplified the slave trade?

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Portuguese traders introduced slavery to Africa.

Portuguese traders engaged in mass kidnapping of the locals to sell into slavery.

Portuguese traders created entrepôts from which large numbers could be shipped overseas to meet the growing demand for forced labor on colonial plantations.

Portuguese traders bought many enslaved people for export to Europe.

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Portuguese traders created entrepôts from which large numbers could be shipped overseas to meet the growing demand for forced labor on colonial plantations.

Explanation: slavery already existed in Africa; the Portuguese established coastal forts and trading posts (entrepôts) and shipping networks that turned local slavery into a large-scale Atlantic slave trade, exporting enslaved people mainly to plantations in the Americas.