Why can slave trade be called both economic and human exploitation?

Correct answer: Because humans were bought and sold like goods for profit

The slave trade was economic exploitation because merchants and owners made money by buying, selling, transporting, and forcing enslaved people to work. It was human exploitation because the people involved were treated as property rather than as free human beings with rights, families, and dignity. Their labour, movement, and personal choices were controlled through force, and the profits depended on this denial of freedom.

Option A correctly includes both dimensions: people were bought and sold like goods for profit. This explains the commercial side and the loss of humanity at the same time. Voting rights, voluntary labour, or the absence of profit would contradict the historical nature of the slave trade. Thus the system must be understood as both a profitable economic arrangement and a severe moral and human injustice.