The process of taking people from Africa to the Americas was linked with what purpose?

Correct answer: To make them do forced labour on plantations

The direct answer is A: people were taken to plantations for forced labour. Plantation agriculture grew crops such as sugar, coffee and tobacco for distant markets and required many workers. Step by step: Africans were captured or sold into slavery; they were transported across the Atlantic; plantation owners bought them; they were compelled to work under violence and without freedom or fair wages. Option A is correct because it states the purpose of this forced movement. B is wrong because the aim was not to grant French citizenship. C is wrong because enslaved people were not transported to serve in the National Assembly. D is wrong because the Bastille was a Paris prison and guarding it was not the purpose. The key distinction is movement for exploitation, not migration for rights or public service. Memory cue: Atlantic crossing led to plantation labour.