Question

Millions of Africans were transported to the Americas via the Middle Passage because
A.
Africa was overpopulated and needed some to leave.
B.
many colonists wanted to free them from slavery.
C.
many colonists did not want to pay for labor.
D.
Africans wanted to trade them for sugar, tobacco, and cotton.

Answer 1

C. many colonists did not want to pay for labor.

Colonists turned to enslaved Africans because plantation economies demanded large, cheap, controllable labor forces; disease had reduced Native populations and indentured servitude couldn't meet demand, so enslaved Africans were used as unpaid labor.