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Which Statement About the African Slave Trade in the Americas

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Which statement about the African slave trade in the Americas is FALSE?


A) Of the 10 million carried to the New World, only about 400,000 ended up in North America.
B) As late as 1670 they numbered only about 7 percent of the southern plantation population.
C) White servants were far less costly than the high priced African slaves.
D) Most were hauled to Spanish and Portuguese South America or the West Indies.
E) Black slaves outnumbered white servants in the Chesapeake by 1650.

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