How did the Northern colonies benefit economically from slavery? (1 point)

Question

Northern merchants were involved in the slave trade.

Northern elites owned most of the plantations in the South

Most enslaved people lived in the Northern colonies.

There were large plantations in the North.

Answer 1

The correct answer is: Northern merchants were involved in the slave trade.

Northern colonies benefited economically from slavery primarily through their participation in the transatlantic slave trade, as Northern merchants engaged in shipping, trading goods produced by slave labor in the South, and profiting from the entire system of slavery, even if they did not have plantations themselves.