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Some historians are convinced that the expansion of slavery was linked to profits planters made from growing cash crops such as tobacco, rica, indigo and sugar. By the eighteenth century the sugar islands in the Caribbean served as a major market place for enslaved people. The sugar crop and enslaved harvesting of the crop were a major income source for plantation owners in the Caribbean
Which of the following accurately investigates the reasons why the African slave trade spread to the Caribbeans?
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The demand for rice rose during the seventeenth century, which increased the demand of enslaved people
African slave traders exported enslaved people to the Caribbean in exchange for more fertile plantation land
The demand to coloncze newly conquered lands in Portugal and Britain prompted landowners to purchase enslaved people
The growing demand for sugar encouraged plantation owners to purchase enslaved people to increase their profits