The importation of African slaves into the New World

a. resulted in the introduction of diseases that wiped out large Native American populations.
b. was only economically viable after the industrial revolution.
c. was a way of replacing expensive machinery with cheap human labor.
d. was motivated by labor shortages caused by epidemics in the New World.


ANSWER:
d

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