Why is slave trade called a combined system of economic and human exploitation?

Correct answer: Because profit came from the forced sale and labour of human beings

The governing concept is that the Atlantic slave trade treated people as commodities while generating substantial commercial returns. Captured or forcibly transported Africans were bought, sold and carried across the Atlantic, and their unpaid or coercively obtained labour produced crops such as sugar, coffee and indigo. Traders, shipowners and plantation owners benefited economically, while the enslaved suffered separation from families, violence, loss of freedom and denial of human dignity. Option A is correct because it combines the financial mechanism with the human harm. B falsely presents enslaved people as free participants, while C and D deny the economic and coercive nature of the system.