How did the rise of the Atlantic slave trade impact the development of race as a human social concept?
a) Powerful European states came to associate skin color and geographic origin, rather than social class or culture with what Europeans regarded as inherent racial categories.
b) Race became a much more fluid concept than it had been in the past due to the complexity of the New World.
c) European religious leaders quickly asserted the common humanity of all peoples.
d) The association between race and skin color was made in the Americas but not exported to the rest of the Atlantic.
Answer: a
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