which statement summarizes how Portuguese traders amplify the slave trade

Answer 1

Portuguese traders amplified the slave trade by establishing trading posts along the West African coast, capturing Africans through raids and warfare, and transporting them across the Atlantic Ocean to the Portuguese colonies in the Americas. They also introduced a system known as "factories" to gather and hold slaves before shipment, established alliances with local African rulers to facilitate the capture and sale of slaves, and developed a sophisticated trade network that supplied slaves to European colonies throughout the Americas.