Which is the correct expert-level sequence of the full slave trade process?

Correct answer: Purchase in Africa Atlantic transport sale in America plantation production European market

The governing concept is the interconnected economic chain of the Atlantic slave trade. European traders obtained or purchased captives in Africa, transported them forcibly across the Atlantic, and sold them in the Americas. Enslaved labour was then used in plantations producing commodities such as sugar and coffee, which entered European markets and generated profit. Option A gives this sequence in the correct historical order. The other options combine events from the French Revolution, education, taxation or women’s political history; they do not describe slave trading. The sequence is important because it shows that slavery was not merely a sea voyage but a wider system linking capture, transport, sale, production and consumption.