Which one of the following statements is NOT true of the slave trade in the 18th century (1700s) Atlantic world? Slaves were bought and sold in the Atlantic world as part of a series of trading routes that also involved British manufactured goods and colonial products such as tobacco and sugar. Many slaves died of diseases on board slave ships during the Middle Passage Even those in areas where slavery was only a minor institution, such as Massachusetts and Rhode Island, profited from the slave trade. More than half of the enslaved from Africa were taken to mainland North America (what became the U.S.)

Which one of the following statements is NOT true of the slave trade in the 18th century (1700s) Atlantic world? Slaves were bought and sold in the Atlantic world as part of a series of trading routes that also involved British manufactured goods and colonial products such as tobacco and sugar. Many slaves died of diseases on board slave ships during the Middle Passage Even those in areas where slavery was only a minor institution, such as Massachusetts and Rhode Island, profited from the slave trade. More than half of the enslaved from Africa were taken to mainland North America (what became the U.S.)