All of the following developments fueled the Atlantic slave trade by 1750 EXCEPT
A) the labor demands of the sugar plantations of the Caribbean, Brazil, and New Spain.
B) new states in West Africa growing rich off the slave trade to the Americas.
C) the transfer of millions of slaves from the interior of Africa to the western coast for sale and shipment to the Americas.
D) the relatively high demand for African slaves in all of New England.
Answer: D
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