Africans were similar to American Indians in that
A) they each thought of themselves as members of a tribe, not as members of a larger cultural group connected by geography or trading networks.
B) enslaving members of another tribe distressed both Africans and American Indians.
C) they disregarded the potential profitability of capturing and selling slaves during wartime.
D) they engaged in a form of slavery more horrific and terrifying than that engaged in the Portuguese or the Spanish.
Answer: A
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