Which of the following is not true about the Portuguese slave trade?
a. It began with Portuguese merchants buying slaves from the king of Benin.
b. Other peoples along the west coast of Africa began to sell captives to the Portuguese.
c. The Spanish hired Portuguese merchants to transport African slaves to the New World.
d. The slave trade accelerated when the Portuguese began growing sugar in Brazil.
e. The Portuguese continued the trans-Saharan slave trade to the Muslim world.

Respuesta :

E, The Muslim world never had any slaves taken to them in the trans-Saharan slave trade. 

A statement that isn't true about the Portuguese slave trade was that e. The Portuguese continued the trans-Saharan slave trade to the Muslim world.

How did the Portuguese trade slaves?

The Portuguese needed enslaved people for their sugar plantations in Brazil and so began to buy slaves from the King of Benin.

They never engaged in Trans-Saharan slave trade because this was dominated by Arabs and Muslims who used caravans and camels.

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